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First test flights of plastic balloons conducted by General Mills at Minneapolis, Minn. for ONR Project Helios. AAF transferred facilities for testing guided missiles from Wendover Field in Utah and Tonopah in Nevada, to Alamogordo Field (subsequently renamed Holloman AFB in New Mexico. Kenneth Gatland chairman of the CBAS and now co-founder of the renewed BIS continues his summary ...

First flight of Douglas D-558-I research airplane successful, Gene May, Duglas test pilot, as pilot. Airplane developed was a Navy- National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA project and three were built.

French Government established rocket test range at Colomb Bechar. Algeria.

Standard system of designating guided missiles and assigning popular names was adopted by the Army and Navy. Basic designation adopted was two letter combination of the three letters A (Air), S (Surface), U (Underwater), the first letter indicating origin of missile, the second letter its objective to be followed by the letter "M" for missile. Thus a surface-to-air missile was designated "SAM."

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley's PARD launched its first rocket-propelled model of a complete airplane for performance evaluation (AF XF-91), at Wallops Island. This was followed by flight tests of models of practically all Air Force and Navy supersonic airplanes.

First Deacon rocket launched at Wallops Island, which achieved a velocity of 4,200 feet per second. "The Barrier" by Philip Ellaby Cleator , founder of the British Interplanetary Society appears in ''Fantasy'' magazine. Kenneth Gatland chairman of the CBAS and now co-founder of the renewed BIS continues his summary of rocket propulsion in Practical Mechanics magazine. In ...

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley Laboratory demonstrated practically noiseless airplane with five bladed propellor and muffled exhaust. Walter Dornberger accompanied by Lt.Col. Seashore and Lt Col Edmund Tilley, look for a tin box filled with documents from Peenemunde hidden at Oberjoch. Somebody had removed it.

Army Corporal E, first U.S. surface-to-surface ballistic guided missile, was fired with results exceeding expectations (a Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL project).

V-2 missile V-2 impacted 1½ miles south of Juarez, Mexico, resulting in new safety measures at White Sands Proving Ground WSPG .

First AAF research balloon launch (a cluster of rubber balloons) at Holloman, by New York University team under contract with Air Material Command.

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