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The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA established Office of Aeronautical Intelligence at the suggestion of the Aircraft Board to collect and distribute scientific and technical data on aeronautics.

The world's first full-scale wind tunnel under construction at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (30 feet high, 60 feet wide).

RCA proposed to NDRC design and development of rocket-propelled, radio-controlled aerial torpedo with TV nose, which was given code name "Dragon." The National Bureau of Standards was assigned the task of developing a suitable airframe. ''Le Zombie'' magazine includes a series of short notes about the state of affairs in England for members of the British Interplanetary Society as the war ...

P-38 first placed under study of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley Laboratory to assess flow changes due to compressibility, later transferred to Ames Laboratory. Dive-recovery flap developed later applied to P-17, XP-59, F-80, and FR-1. "Frigitorium" for cold testing aircraft equipment for arctic operations became operational at Wright Field.

Lockheed C-69 Constellation first flown, a successful postwar transport with pressurized cabin.

JNW created Guided Missiles Committee to formulate broad program of research and development to the guided missiles field, the committee to consist of two members from OSRD, one from National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA , three from the Army, and three from the Navy. German Luftwaffe formed special squadron of 16 Me-262 jet fighters, each armed with twenty-four 55-mm high- ...

First missile launched at Naval Air Facility, Point Mugu, Calif., a KVW-1 Loon, USN name for AAF robot bomb (JB-2) modeled on the German V-1 flying bomb V-1 . In the newly launched post-war Bulletin of the BIS Chairman Eric Burgess writes a history of astronautical societies in the UK. Kenneth Gatland chairman of the CBAS and now co-founder of the renewed BIS continues ...

Army established formal requirement for a surface-to-air missile system to combat ballistic missiles. The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society reprinted a paper delivered by Harold Ernest Ross H.E. Ross to members of the British Interplanetary Society in London in which he outlined the principles of lunar orbital rendezvous as a possible method for reaching the moon. The ...

Contractor study launched by USAF which led to Bomarc interceptor missile.

James Forrestal Center established at Princeton University as a jet-propulsion research center. Westinghouse J-40 jet engine (7,500 pounds dry thrust) completed 150-hour Navy qualification test.

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