"To Touch the Face of God"

The Wright Brothers, Lindbergh, Earhart, Tuskegee Airmen, Yeager, Glenn, Armstrong and the rest. Americans have a rich aviation heritage. In 1941, nineteen year-old pilot John Gillespie Magee wrote a simple poem that made a greater impact on Americans than he could ever have imagined. From inspiring test pilots to astronauts, from the moon landing to the Challenger disaster, Magee's "High Flight" has been there.