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Talos missile powered by ramjet engine launched at Naval Ordnance Test Station, and operated 2 minutes in longest full-scale ramjet flight yet achieved.

Navy Regulus (XSSM-N-8) operating under airborne command took off and landed at Edwards AFB , Calif.

Navy issued contract to Convair for the XFY-1, propellor-driven VTOL fighter.

Pratt & Whitney began flight test of new 10,000-pound thrust J-57 jet engine, using converted B-50 as test bed.

USAF Air Research and Development Command ( Air Research and Development Command ARDC ) became operational, to which was assigned : Air Development Force at Wright Field ; AF Cambridge Research Division ; AF Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB ; and the Holloman AFB R&D establishment (later AFMDC). Later the Arnold Engineering Development Center (Tullahoma, Tenn.) ; AF Armament Center ...

The first Aerobee research rocket containing a biomedical experiment was launched at Holloman AFB , N. Mex.

Air Force Missile Test Center (AFMTC) established at Long-Range Proving Ground, and assigned to the Air Research and Development Command (ARDC).

Drs. H. Strughold, Heinz Haber , and Fritz Haber initiated first research program on weightlessness at the USAF SAM, a study (Task No. 7758-20) suspended in 1952, and reactivated by Dr. S. J. Gerathewohl on July 1, 1955. ''The Seed From Space'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Fletcher Pratt appears in Startling Stories magazine.

Navy D-558-II Douglas Skyrocket, flown by test pilot William Bridgeman, set a new unofficial airplane speed and altitude record at Edwards AFB , Muroc Dry Lake, Calif.; speed estimated at more than 1,200 mph ; altitude estimated 70,000 feet.

Navy issued contract to Convair for development of delta-winged, hydroski-equipped research seaplane with fighter characteristics, subsequently known as XF2Y-1.

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