"High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

John Magee was an American who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force to fight in WWII. On December 11, 1941 at the age of 19 he died in a midair crash in his Spitfire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee,_Jr.