Eddie Rickenbacker by Jet Engine
(Original Caption) 11/5/1958-New York, New York- Famed aviation hero, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Chairman of the Board of Eastern Airlines, displays a cutaway model of an Allison jet-prop engine on exhibition at center. Rickenbacker, the World War I ace, predicts that in ten years Americans will be flying to Europe in four hours or less via supersonic planes.

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514965054
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Bettmann
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November 05, 1958
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