Path: 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: 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 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