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Queen's CAF Salute Flight & 1940s Ball poster

11th Annual 1940s WWII Era Ball - 4x6 — The 11th Annual 1940s WWII Era Ball will feature a Commemorative Air Force Grumman Avenger flight designed to salute Her Majesty The Queen. Boulder Municipal Airport in Boulder, Colorado. 15 June 2019. Website link: http://www.1940sball.org/1940sball/1940s_WWII_Era_Ball/

Flightline Café photo coutesy of Keisha S

Above: A Flightline Café (KGIF) photo courtesy of Keisha S.

Above: Rebuilding a Handley Page Halifax Heavy Bomber in Canada.

Dam Buster Night Run 25 August 2018 - 4x6 with text jpg

WW2 Bomber Command veterans at IBCC opening 12 April 2018 - Halifax 57 Rescue Canada — WW2 Bomber Command veterans at the International Bomber Command Centre opening on 12 April 2018 in Lincoln. Photo: Halifax 57 Rescue (Canada).

180305-N-VK310-0048 — 5 March 2018: Chief Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) John Jacob directs an F-35B Lightning II of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121 after the aircraft landed aboard the amphibious assault ship USS *Wasp*. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michael Molina/Released)

Texans over Texas — T-6 Texan IIs over Laughlin AFB, Texas, on 27 February 2018. USAF photo by TSgt. Jeffrey Allen.

RCAF CF-18 Hornets on the flightline at Holloman Air Force Base NM 13 Feb 2018 - USAF photo by SA Chase Cannon 180213-F-GO091-057

Above: RCAF CF-18 Hornets on the flightline at Holloman Air Force Base New Mexico, on 13 February 2018. USAF photo by Senior Airman Chase Cannon 180213-F-GO091-057. Story link: Holloman hosts Royal Canadian Air Force

RCAF member directs a CF-18 Hornet at Holloman Air Force Base NM 13 Feb 2018 - USAF photo by SA Chase Cannon 180213-F-GO091-073

Above: An RCAF member directs a CF-18 Hornet at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, on 13 February 2018. USAF photo by Senior Airman Chase Cannon 180213-F-GO091-073. Story link: Holloman hosts Royal Canadian Air Force

SE-5A replica at KLAL by John T Stemple — Royal Flying Corps / Royal Air Force S.E.5a replica at KLAL. Photo: John T Stemple.

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“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.

– Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr., RCAF

RCAF ensign circa WWII — WW2 ensign of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).