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Old 31st Mar 2017, 22:20
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Ascend Charlie
 
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There are some good stories about Selwyn D Evans and his efforts to fly every aircraft on every base, from the Huey to the F-111 to the Orion, each of them ending with him committing some atrocity and (twice) damaging the aircraft, then refusing to accept responsibility for it.

In 1973 he also grounded every pilot at Amberley whose hair was longer than the Air Force Regulations, because "if you disobey RAAF Orders, then you probably disobey Flying Orders, so you are by definition DANGEROUS, so you are grounded until you get a haircut." Be nice if you could fix a dangerous pilot by giving him a haircut...

I think he even tried to be governor of SA.
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