In 1922, Amelia Earhart set the feminine altitude record of 4,267 meters (14,000 feet). A courageous and capable aviator, and inspiration to many. Go women in aviation.
“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 . . . Continue reading “High Flight 2017”