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Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, extending from Alaska's northwest coast eastward to Baffin Island, became operational. Falcon GAR-2A, heat-seeking infrared missile, tested successfully.

“Rocket Firing at Fort Churchill” in Macleans Magazine

Symposium on high altitude and satellite rockets begins at the College of Aeronautics Cranfield. Papers were presented by: Boris Petrov Milton W. Rosen K.J. Bossart J.P.Henry Leslie R. Shepherd H.S.W. Massey W.H. Stephens A.W. Lines W.F. Hilton W.G. Armstrong-Whitworth N.C. Freeman P. Murray A.D. Baxter H.G. Clamman An exhibition of equipment included the British Skylark ...

First known reforesting by airplane was carried out in Hawaii. The Army Air Corps Act became law and the Air Service was redesignated the Air Corps. It also made provision for an Assistant Secretary of War for Air and for a 5-year Air Corps expansion program. By act of Congress, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA was required to review aeronautical inventions and designs ...

Historic report on radio direction finding (radar) was presented to the British Air Defense Research Committee. First Interdepartmental Committee appointed by President Roosevelt to study international air transportation problems.

Amelia Earhart Putnam and copilot lost near Howland Island in the Pacific.

First AF fighter armed solely with rockets, a Lockheed F-94C jet, disclosed by USAF.

''RELEASE: 12-221 NASA SPACE TECH PROGRAM SELECTS TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION ON SUBORBITAL FLIGHTS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA'S Space Technology Program has selected 14 technologies for development and demonstration on commercial reusable suborbital launch vehicles. The selected proposals offer innovative cutting-edge ideas and approaches for technology in areas including active ...

Arthur C. Clarke writing to Sam Youd reveals he is now living at a four bedroom flat in Grays Inn Road in London. He anticipates it becoming the main meeting place for the BIS and the Science Fiction Association as well as the home of Novae Terrae .

British Interplanetary Society meets at Red Bull pub in London. Arthur C. Clarke is in attendance with Val Cleaver, H.E. Ross, and J.H. Edwards.

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