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Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) [1] is an American writer. He has written numerous flight-related works of fiction and non-fiction. His works include Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977), both of which were among the 1970s' biggest sellers.
The Parks P-2, powered by a 150 hp Axelson-Floco B engine, was a biplane designed and built at the Parks Air College in the United States circa 1929. A change in engine type to the Wright J-6 resulted in the Parks P-2A, which was ultimately marketed as the Ryan Speedster after rights were bought by the Ryan company.
In the 1970s, five pilots become the Great American Flying Circus and embark on a barnstorming tour in the United States. Richard D. Bach, Jack Brown, Chris Cagle, Stuart Macpherson and Spence Nelson, along with parachutist Steve Young, perform their shows in several Midwestern towns, beginning with Cook, Nebraska, recreating the earlier era of the 1920s, when pilots went from place to place ...
[2] [3] The college students manufactured their own series of biplane aircraft, including the Parks P-2A, which became the "hero" of books by author Richard Bach. [4] [5] The college quickly got out of the manufacturing business, selling the P2A rights to Ryan leading to the Ryan Speedster, and later the Hammond 100.
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is a novel by writer and pilot Richard Bach.First published in 1977, the story questions the reader's view of reality, proposing that what we call reality is merely an illusion we create for learning and enjoyment.
Many of Richard Bach's novels feature modern barnstormers as protagonists, or otherwise incorporate barnstorming [9] Philip Jose Farmer's 1982 book A Barnstormer in Oz featured a barnstorming pilot named Hank Stover; In the Peanuts comic strip, Snoopy's alter ego, the World War I Flying Ace, states that he may do a little barnstorming after the war
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While a biplane wing structure has a structural advantage over a monoplane, it produces more drag than a ...
The author Richard and his wife Leslie have come under a spell of quantum physics. As a result, they find themselves in an alternate world, existing in different incarnations at the same time. As a result, they find themselves in an alternate world, existing in different incarnations at the same time.