High Flight - McDonnell Douglas F-15 Version (1979)

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High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward Ive 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. Hovring there,
Ive chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
Ive topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew-
And, while with silent lifting mind Ive trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
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[@CameronMcCaffrey-e7p]

My favorite High Flight version. The late 70s feeling is so nostalgic 💗

[@johnnybland7648]

Beautiful. And. Nothing. Could compare. To. This. Wonderful. Poem johnny

[@DrBalloonatic]

This is the sign off I remember as a kid from KVVU TV 5 in Las Vegas, NV in the early '80s while it was owned by the Carson Broadcasting Company. Ahhh, the memories. I have been searching for this video for over 20 years, THANK YOU for posting it, and for using all the footage as it was aired, not just the portion of the poem from takeoff.

[@ivanmarkovicxxx]

The best narration of this poem is the T-38 version!

[@Wonkabar007]

Awesome aircraft.

[@VF1Skullangel]

The Su-27 can't mess with this!

[@jeshkam]

The wouldn't even dare 😉😎

[@WhatAboutThemApples]

This reminds me when I was a kid in the early 80s and I would see this just before the cartoons started on Saturday Morning

[@NEPatriot]

This version of High Flight was used as part of the sign-off of KCRA-TV in Sacramento, CA.

[@hikakin_mania440]

流れてる BGM好き

[@texasrightrepair]

This was the sign off for channel 9 in northern Virginia/Washington dc area.my brother and I couldn wait till Friday and Saturday night because it wasn't a school night we were allowed to stay up to see it.

[@timothycreamer8610]

Same I remember this version and the older T-38 version....Born at Providence Hospital lived in DC, Arlington & Alex...that saudade nostalgia and longing.

[@pegbars]

I have a 35mm print of this William Conrad version. We used to run it at our drive-in theatre at intermission.

[@zentelligent]

still have it / for sale?

[@thetreblerebel]

I've always wondered when things like these would be shown. Its propaganda like stuff. I've just was curious. Thanks

[@jeshkam]

Is that really him? lol

[@PasleyAviationPhotography]

Hey this is Luke AFB ,I sure wish the '15's were still around

[@stephenszabo2361]

I was there in the 80s to early 90s

[@allgood6760]

Cool plane.. thanks 👍🇳🇿

[@silvereagle2061]

Oh the beautiful Eagle

[@billcannata1822]

Sounds like inspector Cannon from the tv show

[@jeshkam]

Or Jason Lochinvar McCabe from the other tv show 🤣😁

[@neilhershey3042]

BLESS YOU FATHER, LORD

[@bryonscheer2759]

The music was God Aweful!! love the T-38 version when i was a kid

[@pegbars]

1979... it reflects the contemporary commercial music of the time.

[@japa9991]

@@pegbars What did you want Snoop dogg or something? This is sound adds to the era. I used to sit in F-4s and the new F-16s in maintenance because my dad was in in charge of it Can't do that now with the F-35s or in the last 25 years.

[@jeshkam]

Awesome 1970s music.

[@GatorGirl]

I don't remember seeing this as part of a station signoff. I just remember reading part of the poem in a Bloom County comic strip. Opus didn't have much luck trying to fly, as I recall.

[@Storm-lg4mx]

William Conrad had an amazing voice.

[@gangsnapp_yt5945]

my dad did not see this. as he was not american, but i like it because of its 80s feel despite its realise in 1979. a year near the 80s

[@chrismarshva]

The WUSA Channel 9 Washington DC version only picked up after 2:49

[@timothycreamer8610]

I remember both this one and the T-38 version followed by Meditation and finally the Star Spangled Banner then sign off... doesn't seem so long ago.

[@PchanStitch]

@Great8Earthquake Have to bear in mind, the P-51 was flying against a highly trained German air force with top of the line equipment, with a very large fleet at that. The F-15 was up against poorly trained third world air forces who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, and don't fare quite so perfectly in exercises against well-trained opponents.

[@radiobrewster]

Used as early Sunday morning filler programming (probably to satisfy weekly Public Service requirements) in the early-mid 80s on WJZ-TV Baltimore.

[@sheepwolf2004]

this is narrated by william conrad who also narrated the opening credits on the first season of the "buck rogers" programs

[@EricEbac22]

Don't forget playing Jim West in the TV version of "Wild Wild West" back in the late 60s and early 70s.

[@nedpike2186]

EricEbac22 Robert Conrad was Jim West, not William Conrad. William was "Cannon" and "Jake and the Fatman".

[@EricEbac22]

Captain Ned Ah; I had no clue about that.

[@nedpike2186]

EricEbac22 Robert Conrad was also Pappy Boyington in "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and was a team captain in the old & silly "Battle of the Network Stars" back around 1981 or so.

[@EricEbac22]

Captain Ned"Baa Baa Black Sheep"; never heard of that before, though I have heard of a miniseries called "Black Sheep Squadron".

[@Snowywarm]

@Great8Earthquake f-15 was fight with only 3-th generation aircrafts as had support as AWACS...

[@bigroy38]

Pre-flight sounds like '70's porn music.

[@ironfalcon100]

This must be a 49th TFW F-15A. See the 'HO' tail marking at 0:44?

[@screwaccounts]

great upload. thanks. does anyone know which style of music this is, title name, artist, who wrote it, who put it together? any info is welcome. thanks again.

[@VF1Skullangel]

It doesn't deserve one yet ;)

[@9rexun1]

@Great8Earthquake You, Sir are, are completely, irrefutably and exactly correct.

[@SpencerStaudinger]

@Great8Earthquake F-15 obviously.

[@chrismarshva]

F-22 Raptor version!

[@エアマンK]

02:55　✈️👍

[@bigroy38]

They tried the same thing(video)of an F-117,for the '90's,but it sucked!

[@kcthatsawinner]

....part of the KCRA 3 Sacramento signoff. RiP Bill Conrad (Cannon, the Fatman!)

[@Jhorak101]

F-100 PW 100 Engine Unified fuel controls and AB blow outs every day.

[@dyna66]

William Conrad.

[@Crusader1815]

Just skip to 2:14.

[@leahcarino410]

High Flight National Broadcasting Company - 1996

[@pegbars]

Hardly. This was produced by the DoD.

[@leroywhite1085]

what a way to totally screw up a wonderful poem!!

[@scottcarpenter9993]

That's horrible music.