Back when he lived in western Kansas and drove an old hail-damaged Dodge (maybe Desoto), Rusty and I were a team in Goodyear and rat. Rusty's dog at that time was Cookie.
At either the '74 or '75 Nats at Lake Charles, Rusty made it to the final match in Slow Combat vs one of the top gun Texans, maybe a Stubblefield or Cleveland, I don't recall which. There was a long rain delay and the Kansans & Texans sat it out in support of their man. Russ can in second, but who knew he was a top gun combat flyer?