March 1947

From The Space Library

First test flights of plastic balloons conducted by General Mills at Minneapolis, Minn. for ONR Project Helios.

AAF transferred facilities for testing guided missiles from Wendover Field in Utah and Tonopah in Nevada, to Alamogordo Field (subsequently renamed Holloman AFB in New Mexico.

Kenneth Gatland chairman of the CBAS and now co-founder of the renewed BIS continues his summary of rocket propulsion in Practical Mechanics magazine. In this issue he talks about the Bell X-1.