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The MX-324, first U.S. military rocket-powered plane built by Northrop, was flown by test pilot Harry Crosby, at Harper Dry Lake, Calif.

Robert R. Gilruth of the Langley Flight Research Division, prompted by the need for an experimental method of gathering aerodynamic data at transonic speeds, conceived the wing-flow method (utilizing the transonic-airflow field over the top surface of the wing of a high-speed subsonic airplane, usually a P-51 fighter, as a "flying wind tunnel" for testing small semispan wing and airplane ...

The first Aphrodite mission (radio-controlled aircraft carrying 20,000 pounds of TNT) was flown against rocket sites in the Pas de Calais area. Meteor EE 216 became first British jet fighter to destroy an enemy aircraft, the destruction of a German V-1 flying bomb V-1 Flying Bomb by tipping it with a wingtip.

German Me-163B Komet rocket-powered fighters first attacked American bomber formations over Europe. The Me-163 had sweptback wings, Walther liquid-fuel rocket motor, speed of 500 mph, and powered flight duration of 8-10 minutes. Sergei P. Korolev is released after serving six years of his ten year sentence. In October 1939 he had been at Kolyma in Siberia. By September 1940 he was moved ...

Torpex-laden Liberator drone flown from airfield at Feresfield, England, by Lt. Ralph Spaulding (USN), who set radio control and bailed out, after which drone was guided from parent aircraft to German airfield on Helgoland Island.

Navy awarded contract to McDonnell Aircraft for development of the Gargoyle or LBD-1, a radio-controlled- low-wing gliding bomb fitted with a rocket booster and designed for use with carrier-based aircraft. Two V-2 missiles were fired toward Paris, of which one arrived there. Some reports indicate the first V-2 hit London some hours later on the same day, while other reports mark September 8 as ...

First German V-2 missile V-2 fired in combat exploded in suburb of Paris; the second struck London a few hours later.

Successful flight into hurricane for scientific data was made by Col. Floyd B. Wood, Maj. Harry Wexler, and Lt. Frank Reckord in a Douglas A-20.

Navy Pelican guided missile production terminated and project returned to developmental status because of tactical and logistic problems.

Brig. Gen. W. A. Borden, Chief, New Developments Division of the War Department, made known that Ordnance would develop wingless ballistic-type missiles and the AAF would develop winged pilotless-aircraft-type missiles with mutual cooperation in the development of warheads and other equipment. USAAF accelerated development of JB-2 robot bomb based on design of German V-1 flying bomb V-1 . ...

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