William T. Healy - Tucson, AZ
N 32° 08.308 W 110° 52.000
12S E 512575 N 3555791
This dedicated bench is located at the south entrance to Hangar 3 within the Pima Air & Space Museum grounds.
Waymark Code: WMPH49
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2015
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Located at the
Pima Air & Space Museum and at the south entrance to Hangar 3 is a colorful dedicated bench made of ceramic tiles on the seat with a peom dedicated to William T. Healy and it reads:
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silver 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 a long, and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've stopped the windswept 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.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
In Memory of William T. Healy
Arizona Aerospace Foundation
President and Board Member 1992-1999