Have just spotted that our 100 Years Ago Today thread, calling out the events of WW1 on a day by day basis has passed the TWO MILLION VIEWS mark… now...
Fuelled by the daring-do of the pilots who fought on both sides in the Battle of Britain, let's see how well I'll do in the wide blue yonder
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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....