
Island in the Sky
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- 1953
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(0.00 / 0 votes)This is a story about professional pilots
and their special guarded world...
their island in the sky.
Before takeoff, a professional pilot
is keen, anxious...
but lest someone read his true feelings,
he is elaborately casual.
The reason for this is that he is about
to enter a new, though familiar, world.
The process of entrance begins
a short time before he leaves the ground...
and is completed the instant he is in the air.
In the world aloft, the factors of life
and death assume their proper values.
Professional pilots are, of necessity,
uncomplicated, simple men.
Their thinking must remain straightforward,
or they die violently.
Many professional airline pilots
were attached...
to the Army Air Transport Command
soon after the war with Germany began.
They were of the Army, but not in it.
For a time, they continued to wear
their airline uniforms...
but extremes of cold and heat,
the rigors of far-flung operations...
frequently reduced them
to an identifying cap.
The men in this story
are fictitious characters...
but their counterparts can be found
in cockpits all over the world.
Now they are flying a war,
tomorrow they will be flying a peace...
for regardless of the world's condition,
flying is their life.
There are other stories,
some perhaps more heroic...
but no matter what story
might have been selected...
or wherever on earth
or in the air it might take place...
much the same as Murray...
D'Annunzia...
Stankowski...
Lovatt...
and Dooley.
We are going to pick up some ice.
D'Annunzia, see if you can get us
a cross-bearing from Desolation Island.
Can't raise them.
- Nothing doing.
It's the northern lights. We got to wait.
Murray, where do you think we are?
Right here, Captain.
Where's right here?
How far from the Labrador Coast?
Two hundred miles, perhaps 220.
You could be wrong. I got a hunch
we're almost over the coast.
Figure out what kind of ground speed
we'd have to make...
to be over that there Hamilton River
Peninsula in about 10 minutes.
We'd have to make
200 miles per hour, Captain.
That could just hardly be possible!
Anything, mind you, anything
can happen up here, Murray.
- Something wrong?
- No, that is, not yet.
After 15,000 flying hours...
you are suspicious, cynical...
and most of all, humble.
Behind you are the days and nights
of airline flying...
and the simple formula that if you take
good care of your own neck...
your passengers will likewise
remain in good health.
Frank, I got a hunch
we're in for a long ride.
We got to get something on this radio.
Maybe we'll find a hole yet.
I doubt it.
If we did, we couldn't use it.
Don't know where we are.
Want to head back for Greenland?
Would you like to tangle with that fjord
at night, young fella?
Not me, Daddy. Just an idea I had.
You can bust your tokhes
with ideas like that.
Besides, we couldn't make it anyway.
Yeah, we got to watch our consumption.
If we can't get into Goose Bay,
we got to go on to Presque Isle.
We need all the gas we got.
You don't worry about rough air.
It's just uncomfortable.
or even the static.
You do worry about the winds up here.
They are invisible and can be so powerful.
But most of all, you worry about ice.
It can kill.
Have you ever been afraid?
It's something like hunger.
It comes faithfully to all men who fly to live.
It comes when something is wrong,
seen or unseen.
It comes when an engine sputters and dies.
It comes in a thunderstorm
when the instruments go mad.
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