<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390406" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>High Flyer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were 'Proctors' and 'Jackaroos' in those days.<br>Single wing aeroplanes, <br>two and four seaters, <br>either open engines, or open under your seat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Exciting for a seventeen year old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I went up with the commercial pilots, <br>logging up their flying hours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take off! Climb! Spin on one wing! <br>Roll! - 'keep looking forward! ', <br>Stall! - That was the most terrifying thing of all, <br>not knowing whether the engine would start firing up again.<br>There were no parachutes, of course.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flying along the south coast of England, <br>around the Isle of Wight, <br>looking down on a 'patchwork' of fields, farms, <br>towns and villages, <br>all viewed in 'miniature'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those were the days when one felt immortal, <br>and there was something very romantic<br>about pilots who flew beyond the clouds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That death defying, daredevil image.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Somehow, you didn't seem to suffer from nerves<br>when you were only seventeen, you just had an appetite<br>to sample the great, unknown, blue yonder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I prefer to have my feet planted firmly on terra firma.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Oh! those times when I was once a 'High Flyer'.<br>What memories! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chocks away.............! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ernestine+Northover">Ernestine Northover</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390406" data-title="High Flyer de Ernestine Northover" data-description="They were 'Proctors' and 'Jackaroos' in those days. Single wing aeroplanes, two and four seaters, either open engines, or open under your seat. Exciting for a seventeen year old. I went up with the commercial pilots, logging up their flying h..."></div> </div> </div>

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