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Navy Consolidated P2Y seaplane made first test flight.

First flight of Goddard rocket with gyroscopically controlled vanes for automatically stabilized flight, near Roswell, N. Mex.

First blind solo flight (without a check pilot aboard) solely on instrumcnts was made by Capt. A. F. Hegenberger (AAC) at Dayton, Ohio.

''Los Angeles'' (ZR-3) decommissioned by the Navy for economy reasons after 8 years of service and over 5,000 hours in the air.

Navy BuAer initiated research program on physiological effects of high acceleration and deceleration encountered in dive-bombing and other violent maneuvers in allocation to Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Pioneer research pointing to need for anti-g or anti-blackout equipment was subsequently performed at Harvard University School of Public Health under the direction of Dr. C. K. Drinker by Lt. ...

During July-August: Verein fuer Raumschiffahrt VfR successfully fired Mirak II rocket to height of 200 feet, after which German Army Ordnance Oflice formalized rocket development program by placing Captain-Doctor Walter Dornberger in charge of Research Station West at Kummersdorf . In the United States Astronautics magazine Astronautics 21 is published by the American ...

Auguste Piccard and Max Cosyns attained an altitude of 53,152 feet on second stratosphere balloon flight, landing on a glacier in the Alps.

Capt. A. W. Stevens and Lt. C. D. McAllister (AAC) flew 5 miles above earth's surface at Fryeburg, Maine, to photograph eclipse of the sun.

Experimental transmission of weather maps by teletype initiated by Weather Bureau on a special circuit between Cleveland and Washington.

Maj. James H. Doolittle set a new world speed record for landplanes by averaging 294 mph over 3-km course at Cleveland, Ohio, in Granville Brothers Gee Bee monoplane with P&W Wasp engine.

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