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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.)
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1919, reversible pitch propeller tested at McCook Field. It allowed aircraft to slow down and stop quickly on short runways.
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1994, a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter flew 20 tons of…