Obviously heavily inspired by High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., an American pilot that volunteered to fly for the Canadians in WWII while the US was still neutral. He started composing that poem at around 30,000' while flying his spitfire aircraft. He died in a crash shortly after the US entered the war.
Obviously heavily inspired by High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., an American pilot that volunteered to fly for the Canadians in WWII while the US was still neutral. He started composing that poem at around 30,000' while flying his spitfire aircraft. He died in a crash shortly after the US entered the war.