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Douglas DC-3, one of the most successful airliners in history, first flew. By 1938, it carried the bulk of American air traffic. When production of the DC-3 and its derivatives ended in 1945, some 13,000 had been built.

Initial rocket thrust chamber tests by Robert C. Truax at Annapolis, Md., using compressed air and gasoline as fuels. ''City of the Rocket Horde'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Stories magazine. Volume 4 2 of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society is published in London. This issue is ...

AAF conducted first flight tests of a full-pressure altitude flight suit at Eglin Field, Fla. Practical Mechanics magazine in the UK has a feature article about rockets and space travel written by BIS chairman Professor Low. The article "If We Visited the Moon" features a graphic of a manned rocket which looks similar to the A-4/V-2 with the caption, "A rocket flying-ship, which was ...

The rocket aircraft research program conceived by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA 's John Stack, to investigate the flight characteristics of an airplane flying beyond the speed of sound or Mach 1. First turbojet light bomber flight, the German Arado Ar-234B, which was powered by two Junkers .004 engines. Arthur C. Clarke begins a correspondence with C.S. Lewis regarding ...

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 ...

First continuous transonic flow established in National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA 's Langley 8-foot high-speed wind tunnel with use of slotted-throat technique. (See Jan 8 1947 January 8, 1947 .) This was a major milestone in wind-tunnel technique.

Dr. Hugh L. Dryden , Director of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA , awarded the Daniel Guggenheim Award for 1950 for outstanding leadership. Construction started at Grand Bahama Island for the first tracking station on the Florida Missile Test Range, later the Atlantic Missile Range .

Nike-Ajax battalion deployed on site in Washington-Baltimore area, the first operational surface-to-air missile system in the United States.

" Man in Space " produced by Walt Disney .

First flight of Ryan X-13 , VTOL jet, at Edwards AFB .

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