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The Civil Aeronautics Act became effective, coordinating all nonmilitary aviation under the Civil Aeronautics Authority. The Paisley Rocket Society under the guidance of John D. Stewart fires its first photographic rocket, a 40" long 9 oz solid fuel engine with a miniature camera and parachute. The launch took place at Tarbert Loch Fyne. The rocket climbed to 300' and successfully landed 600' ...

First American use of drone target aircraft in antiaircraft exercises, the Ranger fired upon a radio-controlled JH-1 making simulated horizontal bombing attack on the fleet.

Maj. Alexander de Seversky set east-west transcontinental speed record of 10 hours 2 minutes 55.7 seconds in a 2,457-mile flight.

Wind tunnel capable of simulating altitudes to 37,000 feet dedicated at Massachussetts Institute of Technology MIT as a immoral to the Wright brothers.

Radio-controlled Navy N2C-2 target drone made simulated dive-bombing attack on battleship Utah in test firing of anticraft battery.

Brig. Gen. Henry H. Arnold named Chief of the Army Air Corps to replace Maj. Gen. O. Westover, killed in crash on September 21.

Agreement signed at Munich, Germany, between Germany, Britain, France, and Italy, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, an event in which the relative air strength of the major nations was a prominent factor.

Curtiss XP-40 Tomahawk made first flight.

British Purchasing Commission ordered 200 Lockheed Hudsons (military version of Super Electra airliner), the first American-built aircraft to see operational service with the RAF in World War II. All-wood British de Havilland Mosquito twin-engine bomber conceived, official order for 50 received on March 1, 1940. ''The Sun-World of Soldus'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary ...

First static test of James Wyld 's regeneratively cooled rocket thrust chambers, which achieved 90-pound threat. American Rocket Society ARS tested Robert C. Truax 's rocket thrust chamber at New Rochelle, N.Y., which achieved 20-pound thrust before burning through.

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