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General Electric engineers obtained first carefully instrumented heat-transfer data from supersonic flight when V-2 missile V-2 fired from White Sands Proving Ground WSPG attained 8,400 mph.

U.S. Patent Office issued patent on the Norden bombsight, which Carl L. Norden had applied for 17 years earlier.

The first supersonic flight in manned aircraft in level or climbing flight was made by Capt. Charles B. Yeager (USAF) at Maroc, Calif., in a rocket-powered National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA -USAF research plane, Bell XS-1, later the Bell X-1 X-1 (M=1.06).

Dr. H. J. E. Reid, Engineer-in-Charge of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory (1926-60), received the Medal of Merit from President Truman for wartime contributions to American airpower.

A special meeting of the British Interplanetary Society includes papers given about ''The Interplanetary Project''. Speakers include Arthur Valentine Cleaver A.V. Cleaver , Leslie R. Shepherd , Ralph Andrew Smith R.A. Smith and Arthur Charles Clarke A.C. Clarke . The papers were then published in the January 1948 issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society .

V-2 missile V-2 impacted 1½ miles south of Juarez, Mexico, resulting in new safety measures at White Sands Proving Ground WSPG .

First DH-4 completed, flown at Dayton, Ohio.

Firing of V-2 missile V-2 , No. 66, at White Sands Proving Ground concluded U.S. use of these German missiles in tipper atmosphere rocket research.

Flying a F-190 Super Sabre at Edwards AFB , Calif., Lt. Col. Frank K. Everest , USAF, set a speed record of 755.149 mph.

USAF Atlas missile Atlas successfully launched from Cape Canaveral carrying a nose-cone camera which took a series of photographs of the earth's cloud cover from a 300-mile altitude.

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