I felt much more ambivalent about the development of the Bell X-1 after I learned the history of the Miles M.52, but I still recognize the loss of Chuck Yeager. I grew up building and launching model rockets; one of my childhood talismans was a Matchbox SR-71. I can't remember not knowing about him.
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- 1: Now I'm walking round the city just waiting to come to
- 2: You know this city like the back of your hand, but deep roots are holding me down
- 3: Here we are in the summer rain again
- 4: You're on, music master
- 5: Be my hand on the oar to row to eternity
- 6: To cormorant to samphire to plover
- 7: I'm the left hand ticking on the timeless clock
- 8: Hope and anger in the ink and on the streets
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