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| Genre/Form: | Poetry |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Helmut H Reda |
| ISBN: | 007138085X 9780071380850 |
| OCLC Number: | 48656029 |
| Description: | xxii, 232 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | High flight -- The death of the ball turret gunner -- An Irish Airman foresees his death -- The war in the air -- To poets and airmen -- Two poems of flight-sleep -- The firebombing -- The liberator explodes --First snow on an airfield -- P-51 -- Return -- The pilot in the jungle -- Visiblity zero -- Darius Greene and his flying-machine -- Wings of my silver plane -- A distant thunder -- Those who fly -- Free -- A dance through the sky -- Why I fly -- Gift -- On top -- Sunrise flight -- The surpassing way of the sky -- Evening flight -- U2 -- Feeling compassionate -- Dawn -- Escape! -- Because I fly -- To pilot -- No Stalling -- To all aircrew -- The aviator man -- To a pilot's wife -- The man in the cabin -- The old helmet -- Cloud dreamers -- The aviator -- "Come and fly" -- Ode to my hero -- Untitled -- Buckaroo -- The last bouquet -- Listen, sister! -- A platform and a passion -- The seat -- To all pilots -- The more true love -- The first time -- First solo flight -- The days that we have flown -- Night solo, Georgia -- Tilly -- Her first solo -- Lesson six is done -- Because you have flown -- Empty tanks -- The Air Force hymn -- An airman's blessing -- An airman's hymn -- The Air Force psalm -- Seventh heaven -- Fighter pilot -- For Don Morris: A T-28 pilot KIA, May 1970 -- A fighter pilot's friend -- The flying Dutchman -- To live to fly -- How close formation? -- The searcher -- Last of the breed ... "an old head" -- When the mustangs came -- March 10, 1966 -- Phantom -- Sweeping squadrons -- What is a fighter pilot? -- The fighter pilot -- a tributed -- Ode to a bombardier -- Today I rode a legend -- Anamnesis of a bombardier -- My father, sleepwandering from the war -- Tribute to the queen -- The liberator -- Gaining altitude -- And I look down -- The return -- When it's over -- The wingmen from Takhli -- Precision guided munitions -- fourteen second flight to dispossession -- War stories -- The voice -- Goal -- Gems of wisdom -- Sky fever -- Soaring soliloquy -- A place to play -- Dreams -- Parallels -- It's easy to forget -- The glider pilot's lament -- My thermal -- Absurd possibilities -- Will I ever know -- The sad sack -- The myriad scenes of soaring -- Soaring verse -- To a pilot's son -- A little boy's dream -- Dog fight -- Why I want to be a pilot -- Wings to fly -- First things first -- The broken model -- Silly old baboon -- Downburst -- Praying a stall won't spin us -- Van Gogh sky -- Rotor winds -- Thermal -- Viewed from another angle -- Winter high -- Vapor trails -- 1 -- Small planes and dark clouds -- The cloud -- Sky fever -- The beam -- The eagles and black nights -- The forgotten man -- For the guys on the ground -- Just another flying day -- The line mechanic -- The nameless legion -- The parable of Joe -- Wright Field, 1944: the ready room -- Old pilots in the crowd at Kitty Hawk -- We -- Lindbergh flies alone -- Lindbergh -- A faithless generation asked a sign -- A chantey for celestial Vikings -- The hour -- Amelia -- Test pilot -- What is a test pilot? -- Test pilot -- 840 by accident -- The leap -- To a husband who must seek the stars -- "Mountain" -- A nation cried -- Race gear -- Reno races -- Air race -- The bendix -- The troop who rode one in -- To the man I never met -- To have been -- From a pilot -- To a pilot's widow -- For Dawes, on takeoff -- The choice -- The lady let him fly -- Celestial flight -- Flying west -- Last flight -- The path we choose -- Death of a flyer -- Untitled -- Nick -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Listen quietly -- Buzzing in a byplace -- Westbound seven-four -- Dead reckoning -- Reunion -- Memory patrol. |
| Responsibility: | selected and compiled by Helmit H. Reda. |
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