What is your most inspirational flying song?

Cool Rythms! · Post by **Cool Rythms!** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:31 pm

Love Light In Flight, by Stevie Wonder. He's one of my all time favourite artists.

"Make me feel like paradise, give me what I'm missing. Send me to the highest heights, take me up and away"

sudzy · Post by **sudzy** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:21 pm

You and I were meant to fly......Celion Dion.

scabber · Post by **scabber** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:32 pm

Lysol Rap... a northern classic

Slugger · Post by **Slugger** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:18 pm

How about "Dreams" by Van Halen. They put this song to a great video with the Blue Angels when they were still flying the A-4 back in '86.

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:36 pm

Cold Missouri Waters by James Keelaghan. Song about the smoke jumpers that died on the Mann Creek fire in Montana in 1949.

shitdisturber · Post by **shitdisturber** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:53 pm

sudzy wrote:You and I were meant to fly......Celion Dion.

Yo, moderators; why hasn't this guy been banned for such an offensive post?

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:15 pm

Number 235 in the church hymnal book.

For float plane flyers it has to be..

Shall we gather at the river.

just curious · Post by **just curious** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:05 am

Billy Don't be a Hero
Paper Lace

Shiny Side Up · Post by **Shiny Side Up** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 9:49 am

Then of course there's this one, especially for those of you who have spitfire fantasies...

Aces High - Iron Maiden

There goes the siren that warns of the air raid
Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak
Out for the scramble we’ve got to get airborne
Got to get up for the coming attack.

Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines
Remove all the wheelblocks there’s no time to waste
Gathering speed as we head down the runway
Gotta get airborne before it’s too late.

Running, scrambling, flying
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die
Run, live to fly, fly to live. aces high.

Move in to fire at the mainstream of bombers
Let off a sharp burst and then turn away
Roll over, spin round and come in behind them
Move to their blindsides and firing again.

Bandits at 8 o’clock move in behind us
Ten me-109’s out of the sun
Ascending and turning our spitfires to face them
Heading straight for them I press down my guns

Rolling, turning, diving
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die
Run, live to fly, fly to live, aces high.

Big Bird Anonymous · Post by **Big Bird Anonymous** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:46 pm

Big Bird Anonymous · Post by **Big Bird Anonymous** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:49 pm

Jimmy Buffett Jimmy Buffett Jimmy Buffett!!!

http://www.austinburg.com/jimmy_buffett.htm

"WE'LL BARREL ROLL INTO THE SUN, JUST FOR STARTERS"

DeskDriver · Post by **DeskDriver** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:18 pm

Cold Missouri Waters by James Keelaghan. Song about the smoke jumpers that died on the Mann Creek fire in Montana in 1949.

To nitpick, it was the Mann Gulch fire. The song itself is based upon the book "Young men and Fire" by Norm Maclean. An excellent read!

I wouldn't have expected to find another Keelaghan fan on this website. Well met, sir. You have fine taste in music.

CLguy · Post by **CLguy** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:04 pm

I'm pretty partial to

Squaws Along the Yukon by Hank Thompson

and then there's

Sudbury Saturday Night by Stomp'in Tom Connors

tumbleweed · Post by **tumbleweed** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:11 pm

Can't believe nobody metioned Crazy Train by Ozzy.

T.C. · Post by **T.C.** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:46 pm

Rush by Edwin. Was a good song when I used to fly jumpers back in the day. Had to listen to it everyday on my way to work... Used to be able to play it in the cd player.. that was until Transport got ahold of the mod..

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:40 pm

DeskDriver yer right, it was the Mann Gulch fire. A couple of hours after I'd posted that I couldn't remember whether I'd written gulch or creek, but figured what the hey, there are probably no Keelaghan fans around anyway.

I like Keelaghan, I've got five or six of his cd's. Check out the story behind his song about the Captain Torres. Very moving. The ship foundered near St. Paul's Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence north of Cape Breton. The crew was mostly from Fiji and the officers were Kiwis. This was the days before sat phones and stuff, and when the Captain realized there was no chance of rescue because of the weather, he called the CG Radio in North Sydney on his ship-to-shore and had them patch through on the telephone so the crew could call their relatives half a world away to say goodbye. They were only allowed a couple of minutes each to talk to their families.

One of the members of Iron Maiden, I forget which one, flies the 737 for Astraeus, a charter operator in the UK.

leftyxl · Post by **leftyxl** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 9:34 pm

Van Halen ...Right Now
Always gets me in the right mind.

Driving Rain · Post by **Driving Rain** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:34 am

I Fall to Pieces... Patsy Cline

. ._ · Post by **. ._** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:07 am

Badger, badger, badger, badger....

-istp

Shiny Side Up · Post by **Shiny Side Up** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:39 pm

Mushroom! Mushroom!

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:06 pm

SNAKE

SkyKing · Post by **SkyKing** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:05 pm

Not that it's my fav, but supprised no one has said Free Bird by The Lynard Skynard band, coincidence most of them were killed in a Convair 240.

Tree Top Flyer by Jimmy Buffet is kinda neat.

SkyKing · Post by **SkyKing** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:09 pm

Jimmy Buffett
Treetop Flyer
From - Banana Wind

I could be a rambler from the Seven Dials
I don't pay taxes 'cause I never file
I don't do bid'ness that don't make me smile
I love my aeroplane 'cause she's got style

I'm a treetop flyer
Treetop flyer

I fly any cargo that you can pay to run
The bush league pilots, they just can't get the job done
You've got to fly down the canyon, don't never see the sun
There's no such thing as an easy run

I'm a treetop flyer
Treetop flyer

I fly low, I'm in high demand
Go 15 feet over the Rio Grande
I blow the mesquite right up off the sand
I'm seldon seen, 'specially when I land

I'm a treetop flyer
Born survivor

Now people been askin' me where'd you learn to fly that way
Was over in Vietnam, chasin' the NVA
The government taught me, and they taught me right
Stay down below the treeline and you'll be alright

I'm a treetop flyer
Born survivor

So I'm comin' home, I'm runnin' low and fast
Promised my woman this is gonna be my last
I get the ship down, I tie her fast
And then some old boy wakes up, and he says
"Hey son, wanna make some fast cash?"

I'm a treetop flyer

Well there's things I am
And there's things I am not
Yes I'm a smuggler and I could get shot
I ain't gonna die, I ain't going to get caught
You see I'm a flying fool, and this aeroplane is, woo, hot

I'm a treetop flyer
Born survivor
Workin' alone

Miss Mae · Post by **Miss Mae** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:44 pm

Gotta go with Learning to Fly....Pink Floyd[/b]

Out of Control · Post by **Out of Control** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:55 pm

2 live crew- me so horny

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