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Army Air Corps authorized to begin development of a four-engine bomber with a 2,000-mile radius of action, which led to the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.

Consolidated-Vultee B-24 Liberator made first flight at San Diego.

British Interplanetary Society meets in London. Arthur C. Clarke is in attendance.

Arthur C. Clarke attends a Science Fiction Association meeting.

Edward R. Sharp was appointed Manager of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory at Cleveland.

The first USAAF jet fighter unit, the 412th Fighter Group, received its first Lockheed P-80 aircraft at March Field, Calif.

Modified Navy Terrier rocket with camera launched to an altitude of 80 miles from Wallops Island, providing a 1,000-mile composite photograph of a frontal cloud formation.

Michael W. Ovenden delivers paper entitled ''Recent Developments in Astronomy'' at the annual meeting of the British Interplanetary Society . The paper was reproduced in the March 1948 issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society .

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... Univ. of Iowa and Ohio State Univ. before becoming professor of astrophysics at Harvard in 1939. He was director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1954 to 1966, when he was ... December Dec 1 1976 1 Dec 2 1976 2 Dec 3 1976 3 Dec 4 1976 4 Dec 5 1976 5 Dec 6 1976 6 Dec 7 1976 7 Dec 8 1976 8 Dec 9 1976 9 Dec 10 1976 10 Dec 11 1976 11 Dec 12 1976 12 Dec 13 1976 13 Dec 14 1976 14 Dec 15 ...

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