Richard Bach injured
Dave? Anyone?
PPruNe converts the URL into a preview, here it is (dots replaced with spaces to defeat the formatting):
www youtube com/watch?v=mWfm7m9u9O8
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Pardon my ignorance, but I have to ask sometime. How do you get the quotes lifted from other posts to appear with a nice light-blue backing?
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Pardon my ignorance, but I have to ask sometime. How do you get the quotes lifted from other posts to appear with a nice light-blue backing?
When you reply, you'll see on the toolbar at the top of the page a symbol that looks like a 'speech bubble'. Put your cursor over it and it says 'wrap [quote] tags around the selected text'. So select and copy the text you wish to quote from someone's post, click the 'quote' bubble on the toolbar, and paste the text in the gap between the two sets of [xxxx] [xxxxx] that appear (XXXX=QUOTE, XXXXX=/QUOTE).
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Back in 1971 I was going through RAF Basic Flying Training at RAF Linton on Ouse. Wandering around the bookshops of York one Saturday I chanced upon "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"; having read "Stranger to the Ground" some years before, the author's work was known to me...so I bought the seagull book. I read it in one go.....and passed it around the crewroom. It's probably still there, as I never got it back! It struck a chord with all of us in the flying training system at the time. I have since read the rest of Richard Bach's works, and have found the later stuff to be rather more existential...but always entertaining. I like the idea of "every man his own Messiah"...
My thoughts go out to him and his family, and I wish him a speedy and complete recovery.
My thoughts go out to him and his family, and I wish him a speedy and complete recovery.
My kids still remember the time I tried to read them the "terminal velocity" passage from JLS and had trouble doing so, because I kept bursting out laughing! 
Later, when he tries from 5000':
There in the night, a hundred feet in the air, Jonathan Livingston Seagull - blinked. His pain, his resolutions, vanished.
Short wings. A falcon's short wings! That's the answer! What a fool I've been! All I need is a tiny little wing, all I need is to fold most of my wings and fly on just the tips alone! Short wings!
He climbed two thousand feet above the black sea, and without a moment for thought of failure and death, he brought his forewings tightly in to his body, left only the narrow swept daggers of his wingtips extended into the wind, and fell into a vertical dive.
The wind was a monster roar at his head. Seventy miles per hour, ninety, a hundred and twenty and faster still. The wing-strain now at a hundred and forty miles per hour wasn't nearly as hard as it had been before at seventy, and with the faintest twist of his wingtips he eased out of the dive and shot above the waves, a gray cannonball under the moon.
Short wings. A falcon's short wings! That's the answer! What a fool I've been! All I need is a tiny little wing, all I need is to fold most of my wings and fly on just the tips alone! Short wings!
He climbed two thousand feet above the black sea, and without a moment for thought of failure and death, he brought his forewings tightly in to his body, left only the narrow swept daggers of his wingtips extended into the wind, and fell into a vertical dive.
The wind was a monster roar at his head. Seventy miles per hour, ninety, a hundred and twenty and faster still. The wing-strain now at a hundred and forty miles per hour wasn't nearly as hard as it had been before at seventy, and with the faintest twist of his wingtips he eased out of the dive and shot above the waves, a gray cannonball under the moon.
He began his pullout at a thousand feet, wingtips thudding and blurring in that gigantic wind, the boat and the crowd of gulls tilting and growing meteor-fast, directly in his path.
He couldn't stop; he didn't know yet even how to turn at that speed. Collision would be instant death. And so he shut his eyes.
It happened that morning, then, just after sunrise, that Jonathan Livingston Seagull fired directly through the center of Breakfast Flock, ticking off two hundred twelve miles per hour, eyes closed, in a great roaring shriek of wind and feathers. The Gull of Fortune smiled upon him this once, and no one was killed.
He couldn't stop; he didn't know yet even how to turn at that speed. Collision would be instant death. And so he shut his eyes.
It happened that morning, then, just after sunrise, that Jonathan Livingston Seagull fired directly through the center of Breakfast Flock, ticking off two hundred twelve miles per hour, eyes closed, in a great roaring shriek of wind and feathers. The Gull of Fortune smiled upon him this once, and no one was killed.
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Well, that just shows that Molemot gets it and I42 doesn't - but as a civvy flyer why would he? Kinda illustrates my earlier point.
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Latest twidder conversation 11 hours ago from James Marcus Bach (one of Richard's sons) in response to someone asking how his dad is doing is:
Here's a great video Richard posted just days before his accident that I thought you all my like to see. It's him flying his SeaRey down very low along the water up around the San Juan islands. A lovely bit of footage.
Cliff flight - YouTube
Get well Richard!
Ren
Francesco Grant @energipsy
@jamesmarcusbach hello from Rome...have you good news ? thanks. Francesco
James Marcus Bach @jamesmarcusbach
@energipsy On what subject?
Francesco Grant @energipsy
@jamesmarcusbach I couldnt read any news about your father conditions...
James Marcus Bach @jamesmarcusbach
@energipsy There are some encouraging signs, but it's too early to say much more. Stay tuned.
@jamesmarcusbach hello from Rome...have you good news ? thanks. Francesco
James Marcus Bach @jamesmarcusbach
@energipsy On what subject?
Francesco Grant @energipsy
@jamesmarcusbach I couldnt read any news about your father conditions...
James Marcus Bach @jamesmarcusbach
@energipsy There are some encouraging signs, but it's too early to say much more. Stay tuned.
Cliff flight - YouTube
Get well Richard!
Ren
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Great vid - thx for posting.
The SeaRey is a fun aircraft to fly. I did a check ride a few years ago at the Florida manufacturers.
On being taught the correct approach attitude:
ME: Are those logs in the water.
QFI: No boy they be 'gaters.
ME: What if we hit one?
QFI: We'd be 'gater bait boy, we'd be 'gater bait.
QFI reported afterwards how quickly I learned the correct approach attitude and water landing.
Get well soon Richard Bach.
The SeaRey is a fun aircraft to fly. I did a check ride a few years ago at the Florida manufacturers.
On being taught the correct approach attitude:
ME: Are those logs in the water.
QFI: No boy they be 'gaters.
ME: What if we hit one?
QFI: We'd be 'gater bait boy, we'd be 'gater bait.
QFI reported afterwards how quickly I learned the correct approach attitude and water landing.
Get well soon Richard Bach.
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Richard might be coming around now
QFI: We'd be 'gater bait boy, we'd be 'gater bait.
SeaReys are amazing little aircraft. I don't fly one myself but have been in them many times.
Here's a video of some SeaReys getting their feet wet.
Four SeaReys go for a dip at Tiona Park, NSW, Australia - YouTube
And a landing onto water filmed from the right seat.
Searey seaplane landing at Hardys Bay - YouTube
Another new message on Twidder from James Marcus Bach (Richard's son) that Richard's improving
James Marcus Bach @jamesmarcusbach
My father was truly lucid today for the first time. He can't speak much, but he definitely understands what's happening. Life signs stable.
My father was truly lucid today for the first time. He can't speak much, but he definitely understands what's happening. Life signs stable.
Here's another of Richard's videos flying in his SeaRey called Puff
Puff flying2 - YouTube
Hope you enjoy.
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Update on Richard's progress
From Twidder (spelt this way to prevent the auto-replacement of that word with the word PPRuNe) in the past 24 hours
regards
Ren
Curt Johnson @CJTheAv8or
@jbtestpilot How's Dad? Any change? Holding him in my thoughts....
Jon Bach @jbtestpilot @CJTheAv8or Physical numbers improving. Mentally, it's about the same. Inconsistent responses.
@jbtestpilot How's Dad? Any change? Holding him in my thoughts....
Jon Bach @jbtestpilot @CJTheAv8or Physical numbers improving. Mentally, it's about the same. Inconsistent responses.
Ren
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Time to re-activate a moribund thread. I was wondering how things are going, and it seems he's back with his family and has completed a fourth part to "Jonathon". Let's hope he gets back in the air soon.
