Sep 28 1948

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An Army Signal Corps unmanned balloon, released at Belmar, N.J., set a 140,000-root altitude record.

NACA Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory in Cleveland .was redesignated the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, in memory of Dr. George W. Lewis who died on July 12, 1948.