Cinema has portrayed all kinds of personal flight concepts. From telekinetic flight, like Superman or Peter Pan, novel flying devices, like Ironman’s suit or Harry Potter’s broomstick, and mythical flying creatures, like Toothless or Pegasus. These scenes stir a sense of wonder and can help spark the imagination for what might one day be possible. Here is a short collection of fun flight moments in pop culture.
High Flight - A poem by John Gillespie Magee (~1941)
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. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air…
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew –
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.