Monday 1 September 2014

Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd

Learning to Fly LINK 
Listen while you Look
While we avoid advertising at all cost, attention is drawn to the 
'PULSE' DVD
from which this track is taken. 
Part of the Pink Floyd O2 Arena concert in 2011.
It is thought worthy of being part of everyone's record collection
if only for the cameo appearance of
Lead Guitarist Tim Renton ex of Sutherland Brothers and Quiver.
He is dressed in white and plays a matching Fender Stratocaster Guitar in this clip.  
Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction is holding me fast,
How can I escape this irresistible grasp

Despite the Bournemouth Air Festival, which has been a resounding success,
 COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC
has been flying as usual.
Looking at Roy Norris' 'comment' and Janet Read's e-mail seems I made
yet another Foxes Paw of identifying the aircraft on the last Post, even though
I had that little extra help from the younger and keener generation. Never mind,
rather than loose the will to live I will leave things as they are for now!
Among the MILLION or so advantages I could tell you about visiting
Parley Court Farm
one is, no matter where you perch it will be a Pole Position for the
AIR SHOW
 With the imminent arrival of the 
VULCAN
we all took our cups of tea to the 2 bedroom balconies looking along
the course of the River Stour and onward to the town of
BOURNEMOUTH
just below the pylons in the far distance.
 Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
 Hogging the Sky once again the
 RED ARROWS
 but only 8 of them! It is unbelievable to think that one of the Pilots
was allowed 'leave' from performing before his pay masters (you and me)
to attend the birth of his child?
Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought, I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone
A soul in tension -- that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Anyway, our attentions were soon distracted as the rumble of the mighty
 VULCAN
became audible.
Modern science allowed for a continuous update of its position
as it flew from its base in Doncaster, not programmed to land at Hurn this year.
The first report was from Shoreham followed by an update of
Milford on Sea both coastal towns some miles East of Parley.
Finally, it emerged from behind the trees and although views were limited
it was considered better than facing the traffic between here and
Bournemouth Sea Front.
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I
As if it weren't bad enough here but, apart from sticking up a barrier
the full width of the runway the local Gendarmerie were cutting the 
General Public a 'bit of slack' allowing parking on the grass verges.
We on the other hand decided to decamp to the redundant
Maize Field on PCF land which affords a view straight down the throat
of the Airfield.
Again the 'Arrows' looked spectacular this being the closest any of us
had ever got to watching them land!
Plenty of billowing smoke, engine noise
before forming an orderly queue
to taxi to the
holding bay.
Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night
There was little in the way of waiting before
Big Brother
arrived in the shape of
the US FLYING FORTRESS
SALLY B
Without his binoculars Hugh had to ask me if that was the
EURO FIGHTER TYPHOON
looking menacing at the far end of the runway. It was, and as it turned
to shape up for take-off
on came her lights
with ALL of these images being take over a 10 seconds period.
Returning to Harbins (yet another cup of tea) we discussed the events of what has been a
SPECTACULAR WEEKEND
Everything had been exhilarating and exciting but
"it would have been the 'cherry on the cake' had we been able to see the Vulcan just a little closer.
THEN THIS HAPPENED
DIRECTLY ABOVE 'HARBINS' FARMHOUSE
 As if in some sort of salute to US and maybe
 Bournemouth International Airport firstly the
 AVRO VULCAN
 presumably on her way back to Doncaster
and then the
 EURO FIGHTER TYPHOON
bound for who knows where?
There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I 

Trivia - the name Pink Floyd is derived from 2 of the band's favoured Blues artists Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
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