I first met Russ Meyer 30 years ago when I was selling Cessna airplanes. Russ often gave me a ride to Wichita in a Citation when I was picking up a small Cessna to ferry back to Virginia. At one point he told me about his friend Arnold Palmer and how Arnold always bought the first of every new Citation model.
Russ met Arnold Palmer when he was a young lawyer at IMG, the powerhouse sports management firm. You can read more about this long Palmer/Meyer relationship in the February edition of
Business Jet Traveler by clicking this link.
This is a great story, but what it doesn’t tell you is that Russ Meyer is a scratch golfer. Both of these men have been my heroes for years and I have dreamed of being on the golf course with them. That will never happen, but being in the cockpit with half the team has and is something I will never forget.
Note: I wrote about Russ Meyer in my
Summer 2009 Newsletter when he was inducted into inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame along with Jimmy Stewart, and astronauts Ed White and Eileen Collins. Every living astronaut was there to honor Russ and the other inductees.
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