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Dr. H. J. E. Reid, Engineer-in-Charge of the Langley Laboratory, became scientific chief of the War Department's Alsos Mission charged with picking up as much information as possible on the enemy's scientific research and development. Kenneth Gatland founder of the CBAS continues his ongoing history of Rocket Propulsion in the magazine Practical Mechanics . The article in the October ...

Nation's first center devoted to the research and development of rocket propulsion systems, founded at Cal Tech in 1936, reorganized and renamed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). November 1-December 7: Representatives of 52 nations (excluding Axis nations and U.S.S.R.) met in the International Civil Aviation Conference in Chicago ; they turned down "blue skies" legal concept and ...

Gen. H. H. Arnold requested Dr. Theodore von Karman to "Investigate all possibilities and desirabilities for postwar and future war's development as respects the AAF." Dr. von Karman organized the AAF Scientific Advisory Group for this purpose.

Army Ordnance initiated Hermes program for research and development of ballistic missiles with a prime contract with General Electric Co.

Navy BuAer undertook feasibility studies of JB-2 Army version of German V-1 flying bomb V-1 , which subsequently became the Loon.

First flight use of a radio telemeter for transmitting research data at transonic speeds. by the bomb-drop technique at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA 's Langley Laboratory. Kenneth Gatland founder of the CBAS continues his ongoing history of Rocket Propulsion in the magazine Practical Mechanics . The article in the November edition covers the subject for the ...

December 13-14: In an AAF- National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA conference, Air Force representatives indicated strong preference for use of rocket engines instead of jets in Bell X-1 X-1 research airplane project.

A meeting of the Board of the American Rocket Society takes place at the Engineer's Club in New York. The meeting is hosted by G. Edward Pendray and attended by John Shesta , James H. Wyld , Lovell Lawrence Jr. , Robert H. Goddard and GALCIT members Clark Millikan , Theodore von Karman and Andrew G. Haley . The intention of the meeting was to merge GALCIT with the ...

The Manchester Astronautical Association and the Astronautical Development Society of Tolworth Surrey England, formalize their partnership with a joint constitution published in Spacewards magazine. Amongst their stated objectives, "To forward the science of astronautics" and "To conduct any experiments and conduct any research which may be necessary." The whole constitution is four ...

On this day Eric Burgess of the CBAS and his sister, D.H. Burgess, Treasurer of CBAS, met with Arthur C. Clarke at the home of BIS founder Philip Cleator in Wallasey Cheshire to confirm the discussions Burgess and Clarke had earlier in the year at Warwick Castle regarding the merger of CBAS and BIS. It was decided that BIS should become a member of CBAS until the end of the war. ...

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