Editing Richard Bach (section)

==Aviation career==
Bach served in the [[United States Navy Reserve]], then in the [[New Jersey Air National Guard]]'s 108th Fighter Wing, [[141st Fighter Squadron]] (USAF), as a [[Republic F-84F Thunderstreak]] fighter [[Aviator|pilot]]. He then worked at a variety of jobs, including as a technical writer for [[Douglas Aircraft]] and as a contributing editor for ''[[Flying (magazine)|Flying]]'' magazine. He served in the USAF reserve and was deployed in France in 1960. He later became a [[Barnstorming|barnstormer]].{{Source?|date=April 2025}}

During the summer of 1970, Bach and his friend Chris Cagle traveled to Ireland, where they participated in flying sequences for [[Roger Corman]]'s film ''[[Von Richthofen and Brown]]''. They flew a variety of [[World War I]] aircraft of the Blue Max collection owned by ex-[[Royal Canadian Air Force|RCAF]] pilot [[Lynn Garrison]]. Bach and Garrison first met when Bach wrote articles for ''Avian'', Garrison's aviation publication.{{Source?|date=April 2025}}[[File:Dick Bach take off in Lynn Garrison's Fokker D-V11.png|thumb|In 1970, Bach participated in Roger Corman's production ''[[Von Richthofen and Brown]]'', in Ireland]]

Most of Bach's books involve flight in some way, from the early stories which are purely about flying aircraft, to ''Stranger to the Ground'', his first book, to his later works, in which he used flight as a philosophical metaphor.