What was the name of that last commercial befor the tv would turn off of a fighter jet flying to the cloud 70s

Question

the jet fighter i think was an f 14 and it just flew and flew all the way as high as it could go to heaven. and the tv would go out like portigiest something like that. all white you know. this was like in the 1970s ...and the back ground music the national anthem.

Answer 1

I remember the piece clearly. It dated back to the 60s, and John is correct - they used the poem "High Flight" during the film sequence, which was regularly shown during station signoff. The aircraft that was used was an F104 Starfighter - also known among Air Force pilots as the Widowmaker - due to its tendency to stall and roll at approach speeds below about 160 KIAS.

Answer 2

This what you're thinking of.

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered 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 along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue

I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace

Where never lark, or ever 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

Answer 3

If it was the '70s it's possible it was an F14, but much more likely it was an F4.