How to Live the High Life

By John Smithquite compares to the serenity of hot air ballooning,
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those starsthough, so choose between the Champagne Balloon
Let me see what spring is like On Jupiter and MarsFlight or Balloon Flight For Two for a dream
(Frank Sinatra) Flying is the act or process of flight.experience. To show the one you love the sights of
Since man first looked up into the skies and saw the'Old London Town' in style, as they have probably
stars, heavenly bodies and creatures above him, henever seen it before, take a London Pleasure Flight
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the moment of weightlessness, the sheer thrill or thein authentic 1930s style! The de Havilland Tiger Moth
magical nothingness, that place between the heavensis a 1930s biplane and was operated by the Royal Air
and the Earth where gravity is defied. Flight is theForce and others as a primary trainer. The Tiger
process by which an object achieves sustainedMoth remained in service with the RAF until 1952
movement either through the air (or movementwhen many of the surplus aircraft entered civil
beyond earth's atmosphere, in the case ofoperation. Many other nations used the Tiger Moth
spaceflight) by aerodynamically generating lift,both in military and civil applications and the ubiquitous
propulsive thrust or aerostatically using buoyancy.little trainer is still in great demand worldwide as a
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"How to live the high life". Be a Top Gun Flying in aor to see our capital city. A Helicopter Flight over
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