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Baker Board recommended purchase of War Department aircraft from private manufacturers, instead of building them in Government factories, by means of negotiated contract, by competitive bids, or by purchase after design competition.

First transatlantic passenger service, by Pan American Airways with a Boeing four-engined Yankee Clipper. ''When The Future Dies'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Science Fiction magazine.

Col. Donald J. Keirn of Wright Field sent to England to study Gloster jet aircraft and its Whittle-I engine. AAP decision to produce Whittle engine made in September, and the XP-59 flew a year later. ''Old Fireball'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Science Fiction magazine.

Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment (JNW) appointed subcommittee to review all guided-missile programs, out of which came the placement of responsibility for all controlled missiles in Division 5, Missiles, in the National Defense Research Council. Division 5 of NDRC served as principal agency outside the military services involved in U.S. missile development for the remainder of World ...

Remains of V-2 missile V-2 which Impacted in Sweden were flown to England for Allied analysis. The first edition of Willy Ley 's book ''Rockets'' is published.

Army Ground Forces Equipment Review Board concluded that increased emphasis should be placed on development of guided missiles. XC-99, cargo version of B-36, made first flight. Kenneth Gatland chairman of the CBAS continues his summary of rocket propulsion in Practical Mechanics magazine, specifically the Wyld rocket design.

First U.S. airborne infrared tests by USAAF. The first post-War issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society is published. It is edited by Alan Edward Slater. In the editorial it makes note that the two warring factions had produced the V-2 and atomic fission and that the two technologies now needed to be harnessed for space purposes. Kenneth Gatland chairman of the ...

William H. Phillips of the Langley Flight Research Division published National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA report (TN-1027) which contained theoretical prediction of the then-not-recognized problem of roll coupling (sometimes referred to as "inertial coupling"). This phenomenon was to plague future high-speed aircraft with short wings and long fuselages, and almost 9 years passed ...

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA 's first hovering flights of a simplified propeller vertical takeoff landing (VTOL) airplane model conducted at Langley Laboratory. Wernher von Braun becomes an honorary member of the GfW in Stuttgart Germany. He accepts by mail from the camp at Fort Bliss.

Verein fuer Raumschiffahrt VfR , the German Rocket Society disestablished by Hitler in 1933, passed resolution calling for international conference of all astronautical societies. Secretary of Defense created Guided Missiles Interdepartmental Operational Requirements Group.

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