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Media:1962-04 MSFC Futuprojoffi.pdf MSFC Future Projects Office April 1962 Category:Publications

Media:1953-04 RMI Rocket.pdf Reaction Motors' RMI Rocket April 1953

Spanish rebel planes began daily bombing of Barcelona from Majorca.

British Hurricane fighter flown from Edinburgh to Northolt, near London, at an average speed of 408.75 mph, J. W. Gillan as pilot.

Secretary of Interior Ickes approved purchase by the Federal Government of helium plants at Dexter, Kans., thus giving the Government a virtual monopoly. On May 11, his refusal to sell helium to Germany was upheld by the President.

The good-will flight to Buenos Aires of six B-17's under LL Col. Robert D. Olds, which had left Miami on February 17, returned to Langley Field, Va.

Navy delivered XF2A-1 to Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA , which marked initiation of full-scale wind tunnel tests, which resulted in increasing speed of the XF2A-1 by 31 mph and led to utilization of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA testing of other high performance aircraft by both the Army and the Navy. Data ...

Routine use of radiosondes initiated at NAS Anacostia, Washington, D.C. By the end of the year the balloon-curried radio meteorographs were also used In Navy fleet operations.

British Government announced intention to purchase U.S. Lockheed Hudsons and North American Harvards for aerial reconnaissance and training purposes.

President Roosevelt signed the Civil Air Authority Act.

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