High Flight
Spitfire Elegance
Presented, in this case, against a background epitomising the beauty of high level cloud-scapes. The elegance of the Spitfire design is such that the aircraft just ‘looks right’ amongst the towering clouds - this says it best -
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence.
Extract from High Flight - P/O Magee RCAF - KIA 11/12/1941
Presented, in this case, against a background epitomising the beauty of high level cloud-scapes. The elegance of the Spitfire design is such that the aircraft just ‘looks right’ amongst the towering clouds - this says it best -
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence.
Extract from High Flight - P/O Magee RCAF - KIA 11/12/1941
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