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Article #6177Re: "High Flight" (was Re: The Ramparts):
From: Mary Shafer (OFV)
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 15:50
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 15:50
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In article <7786@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> rose@odin.ucsd.edu (Dan Rose) writes:
When I was growing up in Western Massachusetts, one of the local
TV stations (40 or 22, I can't remember) used to sign-off with a
little "High Flight" film. They had a voice-over reading the poem,
while showing a mid-sixties vintage fighter jet -- maybe an
experimental rocket plane? -- soaring above the clouds with sun
glinting off the wings. It was a bit corny, but stirring nonetheless.
As far as I know, they still show this every night.
The one I always saw was a T-38 Talon. Pretty airplane! Familiar in
a recent incarnation as the black F-5's posing as MiGs in "Top Gun".
There also was a "Bloom County" Sunday strip based on this poem, featuring
Opus, naturally. Perilously close to desecration, but still funny.
--
Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov or ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer
NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
Of course I don't speak for NASA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer (OFV)) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: "High Flight" (was Re: The Ramparts): Message-ID: <SHAFER.90Feb1075008@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> Date: 1 Feb 90 15:50:08 GMT References: <226.25BEC3D6@uscacm.UUCP> <5411.25c2dd7e@jane.uh.edu> <1096@sdrc.UUCP> <7786@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 21 In-reply-to: rose@odin.ucsd.edu's message of 31 Jan 90 22:21:53 GMT