• AFMC History...30 October - 3 November 2023

    On 30 October:

    • 1918, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker scored his 26th and final aerial victory of World War I.  The highest ranking US ace of the war, 13 of his kills were the dreaded Fokker D VII fighter.  (Right:  Rickenbacker with his aircraft.)

     

    • 1919, reversible pitch propeller tested at McCook Field.  It allowed aircraft to slow down and stop quickly on short runways.

    • 1994, a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter flew 20 tons of…