"Why are we in the air? We're practicing, you might say, what it is to be alive." These words, written in the book "A Gift of Wings," are nothing but the truth for their author. From flying military jets to puttering around in antique biplanes, Richard Bach found his home, his love, his passion in the air. And he turned that passion into multiple bestselling books. Born in 1936 in Illinois, Bach found aviation quickly. At the age of 14, he went for his first airplane ride. Knowing he wanted to continue down the aviation path, Bach gravitated to the local airport, acting as a line boy in trade for flight time in a Luscombe.
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