Thread: Canadian F/A restored!

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Those two FED ----remind me of two of the worst crashes I have seen---both John and Herm had terrible crashes with there rear engine cars that replaced the FEDs. John at Tulsa and Herm at OCIR where Herm was burnt severely--the fuel tank was behind the rollcage in front of the engine and he broke an axle on the run, getting upside down and backwards---flip top fuel cap opened and caught on fire and sliding backwards/upside down, Herm was being burnt by the nitro fire---his helmut visor(then plexiglass) melted and he held his hands in front of his face for protection and also burnt them severely-

The crash truck was rolling thru the finish line gate as Herm slid to a stop right about the line and I remember thinking how lucky he was that it would be to him as he stopped----only thing was----OCIR had JUST changed hands and the fire ext. were padlocked onto the truck and NOBODY had any KEYS!!!!

Several things changed after that---New helmut specs with smaller front windows, driver suite requirements, fuel caps/tank locations, full floater axles, crash equipment----

Didn't take any committees or manufacturers groups like the present day -----