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BuAer issued contract for airborne television equipment capable for use in transmitting instrument readings obtained from radio-controlled flight tests, and for providing target and guidance data should radio-controlled aircraft be converted to guided missiles.

Based upon research of former National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA engineer, Charles H. Zimmerman, Navy initiated development of the Flying Flapjack with award of contract to Vought-Sikorsky for design of the VS-173. Design promised high speed with low takeoff speed.

Navy BuAer initiated steps that led to contract with H. 0. Croft. State University of Iowa, to investigate the possibilities of a turbojet propulsion unit for aircraft.

Beechcraft AD-17 biplane flown to altitude of 21,050 feet over the Antarctic to measure cosmic rays for the U.S. Antarctic Expedition, piloted by T. Sgt. T. A. Petras (USMC).

First civilian casualties in Britain due to air raids, during Luftwaffe attack on Scapa Flow.

Naval Aircraft Factory established project for adapting radio controls to a torpedo-carrying TG-2 airplane.

U.S. commercial airlines completed a full year without a fatal accident or serious injury to a passenger or crew member.

British commission gave North American Aircraft 120 days to produce fighter prototype to specifications, which resulted in the highly successful P-51 Mustang. the first aircraft to utilize the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA low-drag wing based on prolongation of laminar flow. Low-turbulence wind tunnel tests (completed in 1938) had led to five different families of low-drag ...

German Luftwaffe bombed Rotterdam.

May 15-16: First large-scale RAF raids on German industrial targets when 93 bombers attacked objectives in the Ruhr.

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