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V-2 missile V-2 impacted 1½ miles south of Juarez, Mexico, resulting in new safety measures at White Sands Proving Ground WSPG .
Michael W. Ovenden delivers paper entitled ''The Nature and Distribution of Meteors'' at the monthly meeting of the British Interplanetary Society . 26 members attend.
Wernher von Braun is interrogated by Dr Marchant and Lt Col Tilley about missing documents from Peenemunde.
Walter Dornberger is interrogated by Lt. Col. Seashore about the location of hidden caches of Peenemunde documents. Intelligence reported later that "he gave his evidence unhesitatingly and, apparently, truthfully and accurately."
Subsonic ramjet engine successfully flown in Navy Gorgon IV (PTV-2) in 28-minute flight test at Naval Air Missile Test Center.
News of the so-called "Flying Disc" found at Roswell New Mexico makes the front page of British newspapers.
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.
First flight over the North Pole, by Richard Byrd, navigator, and Floyd Bennett, pilot, in a Fokker Monoplane, from Spitsbergen.
Dr. Ludwig Prandtl of Germany received second Daniel Guggenheim Medal.
First blind solo flight (without a check pilot aboard) solely on instrumcnts was made by Capt. A. F. Hegenberger (AAC) at Dayton, Ohio.
George W. Lewis, Director of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Aeronautical Research, received Daniel Guggenheim Medal for 1936 for direction of aeronautical research and for the development of original equipment and methods.
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