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Russ Evans .. one of nature's finer gentlefolk.

I remember, fondly, a day relaxing at RNAC (shortly after I had finished my PPL there with Stan Hone, as I recall) ... Russ and Henry turned up in the prototype AirCruiser and beat the daylights out of the clubhouse and flagpole for a while before giving it away and landing for a convivial ...

Just as well no-one thought to grab a camera and record it all for posterity ... probably would have come back to haunt us all in our ever increasing nanny state society ...

I recall Stan's tales regarding Russ' trips to RNAC to renew Instructor Ratings .. demo forced landings invariably involved turning the ignition off, throwing the keys into the rear baggage compartment and then watching the subsequent deadstick onto the aerodrome.
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