December 1945

From The Space Library

Office of Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development created in USAAF, headed by Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay.

More than 100 German rocket scientists and engineers, who had agreed to come to the United States under Project Paperclip, arrived at Fort Bliss, Tex.

Navy BuAer awarded contract to Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Cal Tech to conduct research whose findings were to be used in formulating policy for a projected high-altitude earth satellite vehicle.

Kenneth Gatland chairman of the CBAS and now founder of the renewed BIS continues his summary of rocket propulsion in Practical Mechanics magazine. In this issues he talks about rocket propelled aircraft. BIS chairman Professor Low also contributes an article.