Anyone know the Pilot's Prayer

[Alton083]

Does anyone have a copy of the serious Pilot's Prayer which contains a phrase about flying into the sky and seeing the face of God? A friend's father was killed in a small plane crash and no one can find a copy of this which they wanted to read at the services. Please email me if you know where I could find this. Thank you very much.

[HugMonster]

Alton, I think you mean "High Flight", a poem by John Gillespie Magee Jr., a Canadian. It says what a lot of pilots feel about flying, and I'd certainly like it read at my funeral.

I reprint it here:-

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. Hovering 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 uplifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God!

[The Boy Lard]

Is this what you are after????

The Pilots Prayer



Oh Controller, who sits in Tower
Hallowed be thy sector
Thy traffic come, thy instructions be done
On the ground as they are in the air.
Give us this day our radar vectors
And forgive us our TCA incursions
As we forgive those who cut us off on finals.
And lead us not into adverse weather,
But deliver us our clearances.
Roger.


TBL

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Flying is fun, not funny

[Wino]

I thought the universal pilot prayer was: "Lord, dont let me f*ck up!"

Atleast that is what Tom Wolfe taught me in "The Right Stuff."

Cheers
Wino

[criticalmass]

During the Battle Of Britain, one pilot was overheard to say the following:-

"Oh God - if there is a God,
Save my soul - if I have a soul."

[Alton083]

Thank you for all that replied. I have it now and really appreciate your help.



Thank you,

Peace.

[Tor]

Posted by Alton083:

Thank you for all that replied. I have it now and really appreciate your help.


Thank you,

Peace.

Hi Alton083,

Was it the one posted by HugMonster? If not, could you please post it then, I would like to read it.

Thanks

Tor

[This message has been edited by Tor (edited 24 November 2000).]

[Alton083]

It was the poem that HugMonster posted. The service is today and I am sure that it will touch a lot of people as it is very appropriate.



Thanks again.

[This message has been edited by Alton083 (edited 25 November 2000).]