New Richard Bach words on flying! He’s owned 41 planes, flew jets in the USAF, and as West Coast editor of Flying magazine saw loads more. I asked him what’s core to flying them all?
“Flying all these aircraft is based on one single prayer that will never come true:
Please let me become the sky.
From 10 mph in a paraglider to Mach 2 in an F-106waits the same feeling. Surrounded by forever in thecenter of the sky, weyearn to become that foreverness, ourselves. Some say that’s so, that our spirit lives forever.Flying is the closest I’ve found to
expressing that feeling, in this lifetime.”
Thank you
He’s in his eighties now, but sometimes still active in spaces online.
Richard Bach’s books occupy a special place in my life. Thanks for this. And thank you, Mr. Bach, for inspiring yet another small boy to seek a lifetime of enlightenment from flying
Agree Tom. For me this was an early Christmas present!