Desert Pilot Podcast

John Gillespie Magee, Jr. was 19 years-old become fighter pilot in for the RAF in 1941 and died later that year in battle. He wrote this Poem on the back of a letter addressed to his father. It is an inspiration to every aviator. High Flight "Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; 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. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."

Made this video when I went flying last fall. Clouds are a rare site in Arizona so it's a big deal when you see one.

Some of you might think that I have fallen off of the blogging world. Well you would be kind of right. With work, home, and trying to finish up my bachelor's degree blogging kind of took the back burner but I haven't stop flying. Last year I got checked out with the Plus One Flyers flight club here in San Diego. I've posted a few of these pictures on twitter and some on facebook I post more in real time there. Here are a few photos from some flights from last fall. Took my son up in Sep for his first flight in the front seat. we flew over San Diego bay he was the photographer In Oct my brother-in-law few to Arizona was a good cross country flight on the ground at Chandler Muni (CHD) just in time for the wedding I flew back alone a few days later  rare clouds sand dunes by Yuma, AZ On Halloween my son and I took a flight to French Valley (F70) in Temecula, CA when we landed back home in El Cajon (SEE) t...