HIGH FLIGHT-1960'S original

The original late night version from the 60's. Now presesented here in it's entirety by Leo Mann. This was actually in color but I thought B&W was what we all remembered. Dig the f-104 Starfighter baby!

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• high
• flight
• john
• gillespie
• Mcgee
• raf
• rcaf
• f104
• starfighter

[johninash]

CORRECTION, I am wrong....it was a Britsh pilot in WWII that wrote this and was shot down...

[leomannpictures]

@johninash John Gillespie Magee, Jr. was an american in the RCAF who died while training in England in support of the RAF. He also wrote this timeless classic.

[contour157]

hey post the faded color one and i'll see how much I can rework it with my various 1244 video editors and color enhancers..

[leomannpictures]

@contour157 Hey check the site Daily motion dot com for a better preserved version of this classic! enjoy.

[yes55]

This is so cool.. I DO recall the color version, from the late 60s and 70s in the Northern California area, where there is still a lot of Air Force... could you possibly post the color one?

[leomannpictures]

This version was color but the original 16mm film you see here has long ago faded to a reddish hue. I converted that to B&W that is similar to what I remember on my old TV. Anyone out there have a copy with the color well preserved? I hope so but think that would be a longshot. Anyway, good times and thank you for checking it out.

[DIECASTER]

I remember this as a young boy of the 60`s,...some times I would stay up till the very end just to watch this clip.

[captjon615]

I think the Air Force should film an "updated" version of this -- featuring the F-22A Raptor! Wouldn't that be awesome?

[generalhavelock]

I have seen the authors grave and we laid a wreath from The British Legion;reciting his poem,a very thought provoking day,He was killed in a mid air collision, a tragic waste of a good man.

Not very far away are graves of the Luftwaffe.

On the green and under the green,all men are equal.

[micahhardeman1]

This brings back so many memories!! I would stay up late just to see this!! Thanks for posting.

[stagehand113]

The father of the pilot who wrote High Flight, was also named John Magee. He was a missionary in Nanking during the massacre. Magee managed to film abuses of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers during the Nanking Massacre in December 1937. Magee's films were smuggled out of Nanking; copies were shown to members of the United States government, and sent to the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin, in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade them to institute sanctions against the Japanese government.

[phillippizza]

I was twelve years old and would stay up too just to see this.  Fills me with pride for our county and with love of God. Thank you for finding this.

[OneLaBonBon]

How my late mother loved this. She, too, would stay up late just to watch. Thank you so very much for posting. This clip really means a lot to me.

[dennisgk46]

I am pretty sure that this is the 2nd version. The 1st was done with a North American F-86 Sabre jet in the 50's.

[johninash]

The author of this poem died shortly after writing it when his jet was shot down over then North Viet Nam...yep when my Alegbra teacher would catch us getting sleepy or napping in class, he'd bang our desk with his pointer and say, ''Ah, Mr JohnInAsh, you stayed up and watched the flag last night.'' lol those were the dayz when the TV stations in Shreveport, La. would go off around midnight to 1 a.m..

[newsboyarizona]

Is the narrator Les Crane?