Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth... : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth... / Chic Bee
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| 説明 | Such a thrill!!!www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/70-years-of-slipping-the...enduring of aviation poems:Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirthOf sun-split clouds – and done a hundred thingsYou have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swungHigh in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flungMy eager craft through footless halls of air.Up, up the long, delirious, burning blueI’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy graceWhere never lark, or even eagle flew -And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trodThe high untrespassed sanctity of space,Put out my hand and touched the face of God.Sunday, December 11 marks the 70th anniversary of the mid-air collision over Lincolnshire, England, in which 19-year-old Magee was killed. An American Pilot Officer, he had crossed the border into Canada in 1940 to join the Royal Canadian Air Force. This weekend, Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire celebrates Magee’s life with a series of events, including a reading of his poetry. Wikipedia has a very good page on Magee, who dashed off “High Flight” in a letter to his parents shortly before his death. His father, a curate of Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., subsequently reprinted it in church publications. But the poem really gained fame after poet Archibald McLeish (then Librarian of Congress) included it in a poetry exhibition at the Library of Congress in February 1942.image: blogs.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/files/2011/12/Lincoln-...Aerial view of Lincoln Cathedral, site of the December 11, 2011 commemoration. Courtesy Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire.While Magee wrote poetry in prep school (even winning a prize), the BBC speculated in 2007 that “High Flight’s” inspiration was due in part to hypoxia (oxygen deprivation) experienced by the author in his Spitfire. (Magee had written in his logbook about experiencing the symptoms of hypoxia while flying above 10,000 feet.)“High Flight” is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force. A copy was carried by astronaut Michael Collins on his Gemini 10 flight, and it was quoted by President Ronald Reagan in his speech to the nation after the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986. The poem has found its way into dozens of pop culture references, including The Simpsons (in one episode Homer declared “we are about to break the surly bonds of gravity and punch the face of God”), Mad Men, The West Wing, and Battlestar Galactica.Read more: www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/70-years-of-slipping-the...Save 47% when you subscribe to Air & Space magazine bit.ly/NaSX4XFollow us: @AirSpaceMag on Twitter_____________________________________We are in my backyard inn Central Tucson, looking toward the south. The planes are heading horizontally to the southwest.Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is almost due south.I believe the air Show is in March this year. Now I'll watch Ned Harris' photo stream for ID's on the aircraft...;))Ned Harris says F-35 Up Top, Two F-86, and F-22 In The Slot IMG_3850 - Version 2 |
| 撮影日 | 2017-02-12 10:11:29 |
| 撮影者 | Chic Bee |
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| カメラ | Canon EOS 70D , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/320) |
| 開放F値 | f/8.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 122 mm |
