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Ronald.Ortensie
30 Oct 2023
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...