Editing High Flight (section)

===Depictions in mass media===
Many U.S. television viewers were introduced to "High Flight" when several TV stations ended (and sometimes also began) their programming day with various short films containing it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uGP74qRzSc| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220181030/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uGP74qRzSc| archive-date=2016-12-20 | url-status=dead|title=High Flight TV Station Sign-off – 1972|last=TheShootingstar31|date=12 January 2013|access-date=3 December 2018|via=YouTube}}</ref> The sign-off film occasionally seen on [[KPTV]] in [[Portland, Oregon]] and [[KCRA]] in [[Sacramento, California]] featured the spoken poem played to [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] flying footage.<ref>{{YouTube|sJeVePBjm78|An example of a "High Flight"/TV sign-off film}}</ref> Other examples of the use of the poem in television programs, films include:
* The popular comic strip ''[[Bloom County]]'', which used the poem on 8 July 1984, to illuminate the Earth-bound frustrations of Opus, a flightless waterfowl.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1984/07/08/ |title=Bloom County Comic Strip, July 8, 1984 on |website=Gocomics.com |access-date=27 January 2016}}</ref>
* Featured in an episode of NBC's ''The Blacklist'' season 3 episode 6 "Sir Crispin Crandall" originally aired 5 November 2015
* Featured in an episode of AMC's ''[[Mad Men]]'' season 2 episode 6 "Maidenform" originally aired 31 August 2008, where the poem is read on television during a scene featuring [[Pete Campbell]].
* An episode of the UK [[archaeology]] documentary series ''[[Time Team]]'' that featured the [[excavation (archaeology)|excavation]] of a crashed Spitfire in France, when the poem was read during the end credits.
* The penultimate episode "[[Daybreak (Battlestar Galactica)|Daybreak]]" of ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', where the poem is paraphrased.
* The first and last lines quoted by President [[Ronald Reagan]] after the [[Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster]] in January 1986.<ref name="reagan.utexas.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/12886b.htm |title=Address to the Nation on the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger |website=Reagan.utexas.edu |date=28 January 1986 |access-date=27 January 2016 |archive-date=19 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219124528/http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/12886b.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** The 1990 made-for-television film, ''[[Challenger (1990 film)|Challenger]]'', that documented the events leading up to the ''Challenger'' disaster concludes with the seven doomed astronauts reciting the poem in their thoughts as the shuttle is about to launch.
* The 1993 [[Mel Gibson]] movie ''[[The Man Without a Face]]'', where the poem is recited by the character Chuck Norstadt, played by [[Nick Stahl]].
* The 1993 [[Russell Crowe]] movie [[Russell Crowe#Filmography|''For the Moment'']], where the poem is recited by Crowe's character, Lachlan Curry.
* The 1989 [[science fiction film|science fiction]] [[adventure film|adventure]] film ''[[Slipstream (1989 film)|Slipstream]]'', which made frequent use of the poem, most notably by [[Mark Hamill]] and [[Bob Peck]].
* The film ''[[Snow Walker]]'', in which [[James Cromwell]] recites the poem.
* Pilot and composer [[Max Conrad]]'s second LP of ''Flight Inspired Music'', which features the poem on the cover.
* [[Scott O'Grady]]'s book ''Return With Honor'', which has a full transcript of the poem.
* ''One Small Step'', a children's novel by [[Philip Kerr]], reprints the poem in full before the Author's Note.
*A reporter in the film ''[[First Man (film)|First Man]]'' is heard quoting the poem ('slipped the surly bonds of Earth') while describing the [[Gemini 8]] mission that [[Neil Armstrong]] took part in. 
* [[Jed Bartlet|President Bartlet]] recites the final portion of the poem ("...with outstretched fingers, we touched the face of God") in "The Crackpots and These Women", the fifth episode from [[The West Wing season 1|Season 1]] of ''[[The West Wing]]''. 
* A French translation of "High Flight" is told by Bernard Chabert in an episode of ''Pégase'', a French TV documentary dedicated to the Spitfire.
* English independent filmmakers James Walker and John Wallace produced the documentary film ''High Flight'' in 2016, which takes its name from the poem, and documents Magee's story, the origin of the poem and the poem's place in the legacy of World War Two iconography, as well as the cultural impact of the era upon the "baby boomer" generation. The film is due for release and distribution in late 2016.
* In 2019, it was referenced during a speech of the opening episode of the sixth season of the TV series ''[[Madam Secretary (TV series)|Madam Secretary]]''.
* In 2022, the third episode of the [[List of Manifest episodes#Season 4 (2022–23)|fourth season]] of the Netflix series ''[[Manifest (TV series)|Manifest]]'' was titled "High Flight", within which the phrase "long, delirious, burning blue" played a pivotal role.