High Flight Poem - Orig Aviation Sky Photo - Pilot Gift Start Price USD 24.50 Current Price USD 24.50 Time Left 15 days 2 hours 37 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, September 17, 2008 End Time Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Location Cincinnati, Ohio See more about 'High Flight Poem - Orig Aviation Sky Photo - Pilot Gift' Description Jupiter Jumbo Wall of Air Jupiter Jumbo High Flight 8½x11 Original Aviation Photo Print Limited Edition 89/250--> Summit Express Climb to the Top Summit Express High Flight 8½x11 Original Aviation Photo Print Limited Edition 89/250--> Lost Trail Wall of Air--> Lost Trail High Flight 8½x11 Original Aviation Photo Print Limited Edition 89/250--> Take your pick!  These beautiful bird's-eye-view images of mankind's passage through the ocean of air are overlayed with the most resonating poem on flight ever penned, High Flight.  The poem was written by John Gillespie McGee, Jr., who was an 18-year-old American when he went to Britain in October 1940, during World War II, to join the Royal Canadian Air Force.  He flew in a Spitfire squadron and was killed at age 19, on December 11, 1941, during a training flight from the airfield near Scopwick, Lincolnshire.  He wrote his poem on the back of a letter to his parents, which stated, “I am enclosing a verse I wrote the other day. It started at 30,000 feet, and was finished soon after I landed.” These overlayed photographs, Jupiter Jumbo, a distant Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet, Summit Express, a Boeing 767, and Lost Trail, a vapor trail lost in a dazzling, cloud-layered sunset, are seen here at reduced size and monitor resolution of only 72dpi.  These overlayed images make a great wall-art hanging or gift for any pilot, aerospace professional, or enthusiast.  Very nicely matted and framed, they make a lovely wall hanging for home, office, den, flight school, FBO lobby, or briefing room.  The 85x11 size, which, if combined with a 3-inch mat and, say, a 2-inch frame, gives you a really nice, approximately 20-inch wide wall-hanging piece.  These are a actual photographs of the aircraft in flight which you will not find from any other source.  The aircraft are not super-imposed or special-effect generated.  Every skyscape image is custom printed on highest quality 8½x11-in. premium-quality photo paper, in ultra-high, 1440-dpi resolution, with white border, as shown.  And the skyscape you choose will have the color saturation and resolution necessary to render the beauty of the scene, and it will provide years and years of viewing enjoyment when properly displayed, as any photograph should be.  You can also choose to receive any image without the High Flight overlay, and the images are available in 13x19 in. size. Plus, the buyer will also receive, by e-mail attachment, a 1024-wide digital image of their selected print to use in your screensaver or wallpaper list. Ad copy © copyright SkyScapes Gallery - reuse not authorized and is in violation of eBay rules, subject to suspension. Visit my to browse other art objects. REVIEWS "" No Name Hiker --> CONDITION Your monitor should be set to approximately 75% brightness and 90% contrast to best see the image.  Adjust the contrast from maximum down so that the image has proper "punch" with no flaring in highlights anywhere on screen.  This photograph is custom printed, new, and inspected.  Because monitor displays vary widely, the image will have some variance in density and saturation from the appearance on your monitor of the image above.  But, these monitor variances will have no effect on the image composition or placement of the High Flight overlay as you see it in the image, above. TERMS OF SALE Please see the note on the PayPal option, below. -->Sold as described with payment to be by PayPal, check drawn on Chase, PNC, Fifth of Third, or National City banks, or U.S. Postal money order.  Bank wire transfer can also be arranged ($10 bank fee), payment to be posted within five days of close of auction.  Postal money order or cashier checks from these banks gets delivery on day of or next day of receipt; Personal or company checks from these banks may take up to four days to process.  U.S. bid winner pays $5.50 shipping and insurance.  Wire transfers add $10 bank processing fee. For Canada, the payment method is by PayPal, wire transfer, U.S. or Canadian POSTAL Money Order ONLY, PAYABLE IN U.S. Dollars ONLY; Shipping amount for Canadian or Caribbean regular-bid buyer is $7 (USPS - other methods higher).  Wire transfers add $10 bank processing fee. For other countries, the payment method is by PayPal or wire transfer; shipping is $7.50. 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