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This Day in History:
May 10, 1929

The Secretary of the Navy awards the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lt. A.J. Williams for studying the action of a/c in violent maneuvers and inverted flight, developing and applying safer methods of operation and devising more accurate methods of testing the performance of a/c.