High Flight
by Custom Aviation Art
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Title
High Flight
Artist
Custom Aviation Art
Medium
Mixed Media - Digital
Description
A USMC AV-8B Harrier passes directly in front of the sun, directly over my head, in Lakeland, Florida. This is one of those shots I didn't expect. In reviewing my photography from that day I realized the image would make a really fitting backdrop for John Gillespie's epic WW II poem “High Flight”. The Aircraft I captured is a United States Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier jump jet. Fittingly, the U.S. Harrier was derived from the British Harrier which was a development of the British Kestrel. The aircraft John Gillespie flew during WW II was a British Supermarine Spitfire.
John Gillespie Magee Jr. (9 June 1922 – 11 December 1941) was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and poet, who wrote the poem High Flight. He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941.
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March 17th, 2021
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