when i was 18 i worked for an aerial crop spraying company, and one of the local farmers had a french Nord training plane circa 1950 and he would let my boss take it for a spin from time to time and one day he asked me if i wanted to go up and do some aerobatics, no funfair ride was ever the same again it was truly amazing.
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 windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
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No, that wasn't magic, or mysticalOriginally posted by MarillionFan View Post
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My most 'wow to be on the planet moment' was climbing an active volcano in Java at 3am in the morning in the middle of nowhere, with only starlight to light the way. It's only the second time I've seen the milky way in such detail, then watching the sunrise with the smell of sulphur and warm glow underfoot.
Flying around Everest in a small plane at 7am is pretty impressive as well.Leave a comment:
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I've had several mystical magical experiences with Monica Bellucci, Federica Pellegrini and other beautiful laydees but all have been abruptly ended by the bloody alarm clock.Leave a comment:
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Getting up just before dawn from my sleeping bag on the sand, then off on the back of a lorry with the orange Sahara sun on my face. Riding the same lorry in the moonlight, a long long way from the nearest computer, television, or even telephone (this was a long time ago), and thinking for the first time in my life that there was really nowhere I would rather be and nothing I would rather be doing. Seeing the Southern Cross from the desert and remembering the lyrics
When you see the Southern Cross
For the first time
You understand now
Why you came this way
I still understand why. Think I'll go over to the Thorn Tree for a browse....Leave a comment:
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Creating seven horcruxes and hiding them in fiendish places. Becoming the most powerful contractor of all time and avoiding getting killed by a small child with a lightening birthmark.Leave a comment:
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...or, the weekend sometime in 1974 when I discovered wanking, I didn't believe my classmate Stewart Hamer when he told me what would happen if I tugged my todger, but by Christ I soon found out, my legs went!
Never quite the same since....Leave a comment:
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Human minds are amazing things, and not just when the owner has taken drugs. If you've ever been in a serious accident, it's amazing how your senses get heightened right around the crucial moment. You start seeing in black and white instead of colour, and everything appears to slow down. It's almost as if your brain's operating at 10x normal speed and cutting out non-vital information, in an effort to help you try to find a way to avoid the inevitable.Originally posted by speling bee View PostLeave a comment:
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