This One's for you, Taz!

Nick- Thanks. Most of my time was in the F-111D and F-111F, the digital F-111s, with less than 200 hours in the F-111A and F-111E, the analog F-111s. We had one F-111E at the test squadron at McClellan AFB (defunct now) in Sacramento I flew occasionally, and I also flew a few sorties in the F-111E at RAF Upper Heyford as a member of the USAFE IG team. Not sure if 68-0058 was one of them. They had two F-111s at the National Museum of the USAF at one point, an F-111A and an F-111F, both of which I had flown.

Our two F-111Fs in the 431st TES both went to Eglin when the squadron was disbanded. Those were 70-2400, the world's fastest F-111 that would supersonic-cruise, and 74-187, the slowest F-111F I ever flew. 74-187 was part of the last batch of F-111Fs built, with the jigs and tooling pulled out of storage, and was put together crooked. A shame neither ended up in the museum, since those were the only two F-111s actually assigned to Eglin AFB when they retired the F-111s in 1996.