It is a poem I know by heart and I wanted to do one on the poem based on it . Though the plane itself The Lockhead f104 starfighter was not flown by the chilean air force It was reportedly offered to them. It is a long slender frame gives it the ability to climb fast at up to mach 2.1 and was the worlds fastest jet when it first flew in 1958.
Overlaying the image is the iconic poem “High Flight” by John Gillespie Magee Jr., a pilot whose words have long resonated with aviators around the world. For Chile, a country with a proud aviation tradition and a dramatic geography that invites flight, the poem’s mager danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings”feels especially gut wrenching. It speaks to the spirit of exploration and the emotional depth of flight, themes that echo in the history of Chilean pilots who have flown across the Andes though chile never flew the one oh four the plane suits the the image of a jet ready to scramble.
In conclusion the image shows the death defying nature of flight as Maggie who wrote the poem would eventually die when he was shot down over britain in 1942. Flight has always been something that has been death defying but also in terms of how we fly into the sun whenever we live in fame or go down in flame.