Airshow Pilot Memorial?
Been going to airshows since 96 and saw Black 6 ‘Land’ then the Kingcobra at Biggin then the Firefly last year. Words can’t describe the feeling…
A few people have mentioned the idea of a ‘Memorial’ to some of the pilots lost.. im not sure this is such a good thing?
For me i see every airshow i attend as a way of remembering, the same way you might pause for reflection to remember the wartime pilots and crew i often think of our display pilots…
Everytime i see a Warbird restored this is a way of rememberibg…
Im not sure that if i was a display pilot id want to walk past a memorial before im about to take to the sky? maybe?
Quiet often i use poems to reflect thoughts my favourite is below, it was e mailed to me by a friend and im not sure who it is by? so i apologize now…
Flight is freedom in its purest form,
to dance with the clouds which follow a storm;
to roll and glide, to wheel and spin;
To feel the joy that swells within;
To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,
And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;
Then back to earth at the end of the day,
released from the tensions which melted away.
Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest night; ,
Spare me your pity and shrug off the pain, –
Secure in the knowledge that I’d do it again;
For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know I was born to fly.
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