Hi,

I have just perused your excellent database, and gone back to 1977 RAAF, when I was an MO at RAAF base Amberley here in Queensland.   Bill Baker ejected F-111 on 28 April 1977 - and I am reminded that I bought his air conditioner when he went back to the USAF - he was here on exchange.    The SMO at the time called me into the office when he arrived back from the site to look at the helmet and survival gear, and we were wondering about a dent in the helmet of Bill Baker ( what in the cockpit did it and how).  On careful questioning Bill looked at it, and laughed, and gave the reason.   On getting out of the capsule once landed and settled, he took off his helmet threw it onto the ground = rocks, and said a few expletives which I will not report here.

Just a few months later,  29 September 1977, I was first on the scene by Huey, of the first fatal F-111 accident at the Bombing range, three pelicans having ingressed the cockpit.

Your database takes me back........................

Regards,

Greig
in email 6th June 2007