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Steve, as I recall the story, maybe not from Selfridge, but somewhere up in Yankeeland (as we Confederate Colonels called it) there was an incident that happened BEFORE the simulation. A group of anti-war and anti-nukes hippies staged a sit-in in front of Fifi. They had baby bottles filled with waterbased red paint or dye, and were squirting Fifi with them and writing slogans with them. The fire department came and washed Fifi down, and unfortunately some of the protesters got wet. Probably the first bath some of them had in years! The flight crew wanted the cops to move them from in front of the plane. The reply was that they couldn't touch them unless they were endangering themselves. Now...should they begin to start the engines..... Funny how they decided to engage the starter to move the prop ever so slightly. It was enough that the cops were able to have just cause to remove them from the area!
That definitely jives with my memory. I was at the show, but heard about the protestors second hand. I was at a concession stand, and saw a large crowd of spectators near Fifi, then saw the crash truck spraying something..I thought maybe they were doing some sort of demo of emergency equipment. Then after the truck left, Fifi cranked up an engine (or at least turned a prop over) then shut down. My brother was in the crowd and related the events to me later. The next day there was an article in one of the Detroit papers with a pic of a "blood" smeared protestor sitting in front of Fifi with a banner reading "remember." Kind of ironic, when you consider that's precisely what the CAF is trying to get folks to do.
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