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Italian jet-propelled Caproni-Campini airplane flown 475 kilometers in 2 hours 11 minutes from Turin to Rome, by Mario de Barnardini.

Department of Aviation Medicine and Physiological Research was authorized at NAMC Philadelphia.

Curtiss-Wright demonstrated its new reversible-pitch propellers which enabled a C-54 to make a controlled descent from 15,000 to 1,000 feet in 1 minute 22 seconds.

Martin TM-61 Matador , a jet-propelled missile, completed final test flight and became USAF's first tactical missile.

''NASA Exercises Contract Option For TDRS-M Satellite Decision Will Retain Hundreds Of Jobs'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has elected to exercise the first of two available contract options for procurement of an additional Tracking Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) from Boeing Satellite Systems, Inc. of El Segundo, Calif. The estimated value of the contract option is $289 million and extends the period of ...

The BIS hold their monthly meeting in Liverpool, chaired by Philip Cleator . Subjects discussed included Gerhard Zucker's proposed rocket mail, a letter to the society from Ing. Baron Guido von Pirquet, and Life on other Planets as discussed in the Windsor Magazine.

''RELEASE: 10-173'' ''FIRST MAP OF GLOBAL FOREST HEIGHTS CREATED FROM NASA DATA'' WASHINGTON -- Scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map of the height of the world's forests by combining data from three NASA satellites. The map will help scientists build an inventory of how much carbon the world's forests store and how fast that carbon cycles through ecosystems and back into the ...

M.W. Ovenden talks to the Glasgow chapter of the BIS about ''The Rocket as a Scientific Instrument''.

''Release C15-048'' '''NASA Awards Contract for Administrative Support Services''' NASA has selected Hanks, Hanks and Associates, LLC of Washington to provide professional administrative support services at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and its Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The Center Administrative Support Services contract award resulted from ...

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