Rick Maury's Laughter-Silvered Wings

Photo by Wayne Maury

Brethren!  Fantastic news!  Rick Maury's RV-7 project is officially an airplane!  The inspection team from the Columbia, South Carolina Division of the Administration de L'aviation Federale pronounced it airworthy on Friday June 12, 2015.  N658RM danced the skies above Jellystone Air Park the following morning---three days shy of the 41st anniversary of Rick's first powered solo flight on June 16, 1974.  The Jellystoners salute you, Captain Maury, for a job well done!

Rick Maury, June 13, 2015, Rock Hill, SC  KUZA

High Flight

By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

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 even 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.