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	Eddie Rickenbacker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was born Edward Rickenbacher in Columbus, Ohio to German-speaking Swiss immigrants.
		Eddie Rickenbacker promoted technology and innovation and predicted many events that eventually came to pass, such as the prevalence of air transportation, and the critical role an air combat division would play in future wars.
		Rickenbacker suffered grave injuries, was soaked in fuel, and was immobile and trapped in the wreckage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eddie_Rickenbacker (3039 words)

	Rickenbacker
		Eddie Rickenbacker was a warrior in two wars, becoming the American Ace of Aces in 1918 and demonstrating rare leadership and courage in World War II.
		Rickenbacker responded by becoming a juvenile delinquent--a small-time petty thief and bully who was so quick with his fists that his impoverished parents feared he would wind up in reform school.
		Rickenbacker familiarized himself with the Spad during a lull in the fighting in July and August and was able to take a significant role during the September Battle of St. Mihiel.
	www.afa.org /magazine/sept2000/0900ricken.asp (3575 words)

	AU Archives--Rickenbacker Papers Historical Sketch of Eddie Rickenbacker
		Eddie recalled that most of the land surrounding their home (handbuilt by William but without electricity, indoor plumbing, or heat) on the outskirts of Columbus was used for growing vegetables and pasturing goats.
		Eddie had raced in the first "500" in 1911, and he knew the importance of the race as a testing ground for automotive technology.
		Eddie enlisted in the U.S. Army in May, 1917 and arrived in France on June 26.
	www.lib.auburn.edu /archive/flyhy/101/eddie.htm (2277 words)

	The Auto Channel--Eddie Rickenbacker: American Hero
		Eddie Rickenbacker (he officially changed his name from Edward in 1915) was the Norman Schwartzkopff of the 1920s and the good-citizen Ross Perot of WW II.
		Rickenbacker proved to be a daring and talented combat flyer and his prowess in the sky was legendary.
		Rickenbacker was popular, he was a hero, and had he run for the office of president, he could have won.
	www.theautochannel.com /sports/openwheel/ms9615.html (690 words)

	Eddie Rickenbacker - Top 50 Most Important Floridians of the 20th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was born in 1890 in Columbus, Ohio, to Swiss immigrants.
		In 1941, Rickenbacker was a passenger on an Eastern plane that crashed outside of Atlanta.
		Rickenbacker retired as chairman of Eastern in 1963.
	www.theledger.com /static/top50/pages/rickenbacker.html (325 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Eddie Rickenbacker
		Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973) was America's top-scoring fighter pilot of World War One, with 26 victories (including four observation balloons).
		Rickenbacker, then one of the world's top racing car drivers, immediately enlisted with the U.S. Army upon America's entrance into the war in April 1917.
		Rickenbacker's life was nothing if not frenetic; aside from his various wartime and civil aviation roles he also owned and operated the Indianapolis Speedway and survived a perilous lost at sea experience.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/rickenbacker.htm (322 words)

	Air Power:Eddie Rickenbacker — America’s “Ace of Aces”
		Rickenbacker moved fast in the world of automobiles and went from garage mechanic to sales before he settled into auto racing in 1910.
		Rickenbacker received his wings after 17 days of training and was assigned to the 94th Aero Squadron based outside of Toule, France.
		Eddie Rickenbacker was back in the news, his luck having gotten him through another adventure.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Air_Power/rickenbacker/AP9.htm (1444 words)

	Motorsports Hall of Fame
		Rick (as he preferred to be called instead of "Eddie") was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1890.
		Press reports of the time declared that there was no more daring and aggresive driver than Rickenbacker, with a "savage style of driving" who was also lucky.
		Rickenbacker's racing career included victories in California, Iowa, Nebraska, New York, as well as special races at Indianapolis.
	www.mshf.com /hof/rickenbacker_eddie.htm (609 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Aviation History \| Captain Eddie Rickenbacker: America's World War I Ace of Aces
		Young Rickenbacker was admittedly a bad boy who smoked at age 5 and headed a group of mischievous youngsters known as the Horsehead Gang, but he was imbued with family values by frequent applications of a switch to his posterior by his strict father.
		Rickenbacker had a lifelong fear of heights, but he had not been apprehensive during the flight.
		Rickenbacker's technique was to approach his intended victims carefully, closer than others dared, before firing his guns.
	www.historynet.com /ahi/blcaptaineddie (1220 words)

	Eastern Air Lines 1939 - Eddie Rickenbacker as President
		Rickenbacker was responsible for shooting down several aircraft and balloons during the war.
		Rickenbacker was flying with greater confidence since the 94th had replaced its Nieuport 28s with more rugged Spad 13s in mid-July 1918.
		Rickenbacker's felt hat was used to catch the water, which was wrung out into a bucket from soaked articles of clothing.
	www.scripophily.net /easair.html (5760 words)

	Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker House--Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic Places ...
		Although overage and not a high school graduate, Rickenbacker, with the assistance of William "Billy" Mitchell, received an assignment to flight school.
		After 17 days at the French aviation school at Tours, Eddie received his wings and a commission as first lieutenant; however, he was assigned to the Advanced Flight School at Issoudun as an engineering officer, not a pilot.
		Eddie Rickenbacker returned home after the end of the war as the idol of the American public, the "American Ace of Aces." He refused offers to make movies or endorse products, but he did publish his war memoir entitled Fighting the Flying Circus.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/ric.htm (489 words)

	Eddie Rickenbacker - Survival Through Prayer
		Eddie Rickenbacker was quite a hero in both W.W.1 and W.W.2.
		The miraculous survival of Eddie and his crew can be attributed to prayer, along the same lines, as prayer saved the lives of many pilots about ten years later on that fog bound carrier.
		Eddie Rickenbacker lived many years beyond that ordeal, but he never forgot the sacrifice of that first lifesaving seagull.
	www.konig.org /wc127.htm (577 words)

	Wings of Valor - Eddie Rickenbacker, America's Ace of Aces
		Rickenbacker watched the two enemy airplanes pass leisurely beyond him in the distance, then dipped over, swung around, and opened his engine wide as he zoomed in from their rear.
		When Eddie Rickenbacker wrote at the close of his 1967 autobiography how much his country had given him he was a hero, a successful entrepreneur, and a wealthy man. It was not these things to which he referred, however.
		Eddie, despite the family's poverty, the tragic loss of his father, or the difficulties of his day, never felt his family, his community or his country, owed him anything.
	www.homeofheroes.com /wings/part1/4_aceofaces.html (16371 words)

	TUVALU - THE RESCUE OF EDDIE RICKENBACKER
		The first part of the journey should have ended on Canton, however, the B-17 carrying Eddie Rickenbacker, his aide Col. Hans Adamson, and their flight crew, overshot Canton Island by at least 100 miles to the southwest.
		Eddie Rickenbacker's parents came from the German-speaking cantonment of Switzerland, but he himself was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1890.
		As they finished the last of the soup and were gnawing on the chicken bones, a navy scout plane circled and landed on the water and a physician ministered to the needs of the survivors.
	www.janeresture.com /rickenbacker (2702 words)

	Welcome to Eddie Rickenbacker - Early Member of the 94th
		Eddie Rickenbacker of Columbus, Ohio first gained fame as a race car driver prior to America's entry into WWI.
		His request was approved by Major Carl Spaatz and Rickenbacker was assigned to the 94th Aero Squadron.
		Almost immediately he demonstrated his exceptional combat ability and by the end of the war, he was our nation's leading ace with 26 confirmed victories, despite the fact that through most of June, July, and August 1918, he had not been permitted to fly combat missions because of severe ear infections.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageFullText/1,13476,700732,00.html (252 words)

	Rickenbacker
		Rickenbacker got a break one day when he had a chance to fix a motorcar carrying Colonel Billy Mitchell, then chief of the Army's Air Service.
		Rickenbacker and Chambers both believed they had downed Fokker, but their claims were unconfirmed, as the combat took place well over German lines.
		Recovering from his dive, Rickenbacker and Chambers sought a place between the Fokkers and their lines where they might be expected to issue out and make for home.
	www.acepilots.com /wwi/us_rickenbacker.html (2941 words)

	Rickenbacker Airport \| History
		The international business center that Rickenbacker has become is the result of a strategic initiative launched to redevelop the former Rickenbacker Air Force Base into a private sector, international logistics center.
		In 1974, the base was renamed Rickenbacker Air Force Base in honor of World War I flying ace and Congressional Medal of Honor winner Eddie Rickenbacker, a Columbus native.
		The first development occurred at Rickenbacker in 1985 with the establishment of an air cargo hub and bulk sorting facility for the Flying Tigers.
	www.rickenbacker.org /about/history.asp (1258 words)

	Eddie Rickenbacker - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
		Edward Rickenbacker (he changed the spelling at the outbreak of World War I), was born in Columbus, OH, on October 8,1980, Rickenbacker started in the auto business by 1905, working in Evans Garage for 75 cents a day.
		The idea was for Rickenbacker to set the pace while Oldfield would push his car to stay ahead of him, thereby wearing out his car and allowing Rickenbacker to win.
		Rickenbacker went to Britain to race a Sunbeam but the trip turned out to be an abortive one.
	www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1992/Eddie_Rickenbacker_main.htm (942 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Eddie Rickenbacker: Boy Pilot and Racer by Kathryn Cleven Sisson
		World War I flying ace, winner of the Medal of Honor, and racecar driver Eddie Rickenbacker was an adventurous boy who first attempted flight by riding his bicycle off the roof while holding an umbrella.
		Eddie wanted to stay longer, but if his mother wanted him to come home, he knew he had to go.
		As Eddie trudged along, he felt the wet snow soaking through a hole in the sole of one of his shoes.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/ebook33989.htm (923 words)

	Eddie Rickenbacker's: Food in SOMA on posthoc.com
		After a lengthy and costly battle with his sibling who went on to open the Balboa, Norman opened Eddie Rickenbacker’s in the just awakening SOMA area, and it’s been a hit since then.
		The ceiling is adorned with countless Tiffany Lamps, a bunch of historic motorcycles and memorabilia from wartime flying ‘ace’ Rickenbacker.
		On the minus side of Rickenbacker’s is the closeness of tables in the dining room,--it’s loud and very hard to carry on a conversation, but fun.
	www.posthoc.com /rickenbackers.htm (435 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Bio: Edward V. Rickenbacker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eddie, as he was known, was a successful race car driver before WWI, and at one time had proposed to form a flying squadron made up entirely of racing drivers.
		In May, 1917 he sailed to France as part of the AEF, where he became the staff driver of General Pershing himself, because of his knowledge of auto mechanics.
		Rickenbacker received the Congressional Medal of Honor for attacking a formation of 5 German planes, downing 2 and chasing the others away.
	www.worldwar1.com /biocric.htm (324 words)

	Eddie Rickenbacker - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Eddie Rickenbacker - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Rickenbacker, Eddie (1890-1973), American aviator and businessman, who was the leading American combat pilot in World War I (1914-1918).
		Encarta provides a list of some of the incredible milestones in aviation history.
	encarta.msn.com /Eddie_Rickenbacker.html (75 words)

	Item Description
		Rickenbacker (1890-1973), a native of Columbus, Ohio, was World War I's "Ace of Aces." He shot down 26 enemy aircraft, more than any other American pilot.
		The famous "Hat in the Ring" insignia is from Rickenbacker's 94th Aero Squadron.
		Rickenbacker conducted tours of inspection on behalf of the secretary of war during World War II.
	worlddmc.ohiolink.edu /OMP/NewDetails?oid=1160684 (164 words)

	Eddie Rickenbacker's WWI Spad XIII Scout-Hat in the Ring
		The later model was in the first rank of 1918 fighting scout designs, together with the British Snipe and the Fokker DVII and is given credit to have tipped the balance of air power in the Allies' favor.
		Rickenbacker and Frank Luke, Rickenbacker scored the majority of his 26 victories in the SPAD XIII, at~d the good reports he and his fellow Americans sent backyesulted in the ambitious decision to build no less than 6000 SPADs in the United States.
		The most famous U.S. pilot, Capt. Edward Rickenbacker, was quick to put the S.P.A.D. XIII to work on his way to a total of 26 aerial victories.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/SPAD-13/spad_info/spad_info.php (4476 words)

	Model Cellar 120mm Eddie Rickenbacker
		The line includes many pilots – von Richthofen (which I already built), Lufberry, Bishop, Rickenbacker, and more are on the way as I ascertained from MC itself.
		After a while, I found information on Eddie Rickenbacker at THE AERODROME, (including the list of his medals) and the ribbons themselves at other website.
		By the way, and though I can't vouch for this, it seems like most ribbons are just, more or less, a short piece of the original medal ribbon; the Medal of Honor shows little differences (the number of stars and their pattern aren't the same) but this rule apparently holds.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2000/july/figures/rickenbacker.htm (1605 words)

	Fighting the Flying Circus
		This on-line edition of Eddie Rickenbacker's World War One memoirs dates from the original version published by Stokes in 1919.
		Captain Rickenbacker, originally from Ohio, was best known as one of the Commanders of the 94th "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron, a crack unit of pilots which included many former members of the famed Lafayette Escadrille.
		Captain Rickenbacker later belonged to an association of pilots and Great War air veterans who, in the years immediately following the Second World War, invited many of the new "young" aces from the Pacific and European theaters for informal lectures.
	www.richthofen.com /rickenbacker (154 words)

	Johns Hopkins University Press \| Books \| Eddie Rickenbacker
		Eddie Rickenbacker epitomized American spirit in the twentieth century.
		David Lewis's biography of Rickenbacker reveals both the achievements and the vulnerability of this quintessential American hero.
		Rickenbacker embodied what was new, exciting, and romantic about the country in the postwar years.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/title_pages/3189.html (642 words)

	Captain Eddie (1945) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Plot Summary: WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI...
		Purporting to be a biography of WWI flying ace, Eddie Rickenbacker, it is one of the most ill-conceived, poorly written, directed and acted films in movie history.
		The rest is couched in two tediously long flashbacks covering his childhood desire to fly and master machinery and his youthful romancing of his wife to be while he is involved in improving the automobile.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0037575 (346 words)

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