I feel a tiny connection with Richard Bach. His Fournier RF4D lives in a hangar at the airport I hang out at, and I get to fly it from time to time. Coincidentally, Mira Slovak's former RF4D lives in my hangar.

Richard wrote this article about Mira and his famous escape from soviet occupied Czechoslovakia. Click on the image below or go to the Downloads section of this website to view it.

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In addition to the fame he earned as an author, and as the creator of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach may be a distant descendent of the composer JS Bach. He now lives in New Zealand.