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Gen. Thomas D. White, USAF, wrote James H. Doolittle, Chairman, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA : "There was regret at the passing of an agency that for 43 years has set the world's standard in aeronautical research. . . . There has always been for us in the Air Force, the knowledge that National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA was ready to help in any aerodynamic ...

Vanguard (SLV-3) reached 265 miles' altitude and was destroyed 9,200 miles downrange over Central Africa on reentry into the atmosphere. Boeing B-52D set a world distance in a closed-circuit record of 6,233.981 miles, with Lt. CoL V. L. Sandacz at the controls.

Pan American World Airways began regular daily jet service between New York and Paris using Boeing 707's.

Date of Dr. Robert H. Goddard 's progress report to the Smithsonian Institution entitled " A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes ." It was published by the Smithsonian in January 1920.

Chief of Navy BuAer agreed with Chief of Army Air Service that identical aeronautic specifications would be advantageous to both the aviation indnstry and the military services. Lt. R. S. Barnaby was ordered to McCook Field as BuAer representative on inter-service committee on standardization in December, the first of a series of annual meetings held until 1937.

Jet-assisted takeoff of a Brewster F2A-3 using five British antiaircraft solid-propellant rockets demonstrated at NAS Anacostia, Comdr. C. Fink Fischer as pilot.

First North American NATIV missile launched at White Sands Proving Ground WSPG .

Navy's first and for many years the world's largest wind tunnel was decommissioned at the Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D.C. Completed in 1914, the wooden 8- by 8-foot wind tunnel was used over 30 years.

ABMA static fired a single H-1 rocket engine H-1 Saturn engine at Redstone Arsenal , Ala.

Gustav Knaepper of Dortmund is granted a patent for a reaction motor for airplanes using compressed air.

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