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First launching of USAF B-61 Martin Matador pilotless aircraft at Missile Test Center. Bell X-5 (No. 1) research airplane made first flight of 30 minutes at Edwards, Calif., with Jean Ziegler as pilot. This was first flight of an aircraft with variable-sweep, a USAF- National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA research project for investigation of various sweeps.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL fired first of a series of 8,544 Loki solid-propellant antiaircraft missiles at White Sands Proving Ground WSPG , the Army program ending after September 1955. Loki rocket was later used in ONR Rockoon , upper atmosphere balloon-launched rocket research soundings.

USAF Arnold Engineering Development Center at Tullahoma, Tenn., dedicated by President Truman, to test and evaluate supersonic aircraft and guided missiles.

United States terminated its V-2 missile V-2 program, 67 V-2 missile V-2 's having been flown since the first American launch of a V-2 missile V-2 on April 16, 1946.

Navy Air Turbine Test Station commissioned at Trenton, N.J., to test and to evaluate turbojet, turboprop, ramjet, and pulse-jet engines, accessories, and components.

Air-to-air refueling of jet aircraft (RF-80) in combat zone accomplished in Korea, believed the first such hookup.

First flight of Consolidated XF-92A, a USAF and later a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA research airplane (predecessor of the F-102) at Edwards AFB .

United States-United Kingdom agreement signed and went into effect permitting the extension of the U.S. missile range southeastward from Florida on its first leg through the Bahamas.

A Navy Viking launch vehicle Viking 7 rocket set an altitude record for single-stage rockets, climbing to 136 miles and reaching a speed of 4,100 mph, at White Sands, N. Mex., highest flight of original airframe design. D-558-II Skyrocket reached maximum speed of 1,238 mph, with William Bridgeman as pilot.

William Bridgeman flew the D-558-II Skyrocket to 79,494 feet, highest altitude attained by a human being to date.

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