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Amphibian version of PRY flying boat ordered by the Navy from Consolidated.

The free-flight tunnel placed into operation at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory . April 20-21: Experiments with four-bladed controllable propeller on Curtiss P-36 begun at Wright Field.

Flying a Messerschmitt BF-109R, Fritz Wendel achieved record speed of 468.9 mph in level flight, at Augsburg, Germany.

The New York World's Fair opens. Included is an exhibit in the "Time and Space" building which purports to show the view from a spacecraft. Ports of call include Venus, the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Saturn, the Milky Way, Horse Head nebula, and the Andromeda galaxy. Travellers voyage nine trillion trillion miles at 33 trillion trillion miles per hour for a fare of 25 cents. Aviation chronometers and ...

Stephen H. Smith of Calcutta India launches a six foot wide rocket aeroplane at Garia in India. The vehicle was reported to fly well before the engine burned through the control surfaces and it crashed.

Arthur C. Clarke writing to Sam Youd tells him he has been up until 1 and 2 in the morning working on the Bulletin of the British Interplanetary Society . Youd had just published his first science fiction fanzine, The Fantast, which had Clarke's name on the cover, the first time C;arke has his own cover.

Arthur C. Clarke attends an "emergency" Science Fiction Association meeting.

Arthur C. Clarke attends a Science Fiction Association meeting.

Arthur C. Clarke attends a Science Fiction Association meeting.

Arthur C. Clarke receives a letter from the New York Times about the BIS spacecraft plans.

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