IT IS WITH A HEAVY HEART THAT I EDITED THIS VIDEO TODAY BECAUSE KEN BONES A VERY GOOD FRIEND OF MINE & DEANO (WEARING A GREY HOODY FLYING THE SIVER YAK) PASSED AWAY TWO DAYS AGO QUITE SUDDENLY WITH OUT TIME TO EVEN SAY GOODBYE TO LOVED ONES OR CLOSE FRIENDS,
I FILMED THIS IN SEPTEMBER OF 2015 AT AN RAF TIBENHAM FLY-IN ORGANISED BY PHIL GOFF BUT NEVER GOT AROUND TO UPLOADING IT,
YOU CAN SEE KEN HAVING A LAUGH WITH HIS CLOSE FRIENDS CHRIS WILLIS AND MARK HOUGHTON AND IT WAS GREAT TO SPEND THE DAY WITH THE THREE OF THEM,
THIS VIDEO WILL NO DOUBT MEAN A LOT TO CHRIS (FLYING WITH HIM) AND MARK BOTH LIFE LONG FRIENDS OF KENS AND I ALSO HOPE KENS FAMILY AND CLOSE FRIENDS GET SOME COMFORT FROM SEEING KEN SMILLING AGAIN,
RIP – KEN BONES – MISSED BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN – LOVE PETE & DEANO,
A VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF KENS (PAUL WILLIAMS) POSTED THIS CLASSIC POEM CALLED “HIGH FLIGHT” FROM A WW2 RCAF FIGHTER PILOT IN THE COMMENTS BOX AND I THINK IT IS VERY APPT FOR KENS MEMORY SO HERE IT IS –
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.
THIS AMAZING POEM “HIGH FLIGHT” WAS WRITTEN BY SPITFIRE PILOT JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR AGED JUST 19, THREE MONTHS LATER HE WAS KILLED DURING A MIDD AIR COLISION WITH AN AIRSPEED OXFORD TRAINING AIRCRAFT WHILST IN HIS SPITFIRE, HE JUMPED FROM THE STRICKEN PLANE BUT HIS PARACHUTE DID NOT HAVE TIME TO OPEN DUE TO HIS LOW ALTITUDE !
ERNEST AUBREY GRIFFIN THE PILOT OF THE AIRSPEED OXFORD WAS ALSO KILLED IN THE COLLISION,
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FILMED AT A FLY-IN AT THE SECOND WORLD WAR LIBERATOR BOMBER AIRBASE OF TIBENHAM IN NORFOLK ON 25-9-2015,
