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... mention. 1938 January 1938 January Jan 1 1938 1 Jan 2 1938 2 Jan 3 1938 3 Jan 4 1938 4 Jan 5 1938 5 Jan 6 1938 6 Jan 7 1938 7 Jan 8 1938 8 Jan 9 1938 9 ... 23 1938 23 Aug 24 1938 24 Aug 25 1938 25 Aug 26 1938 26 Aug 27 1938 27 Aug 28 1938 28 Aug 29 1938 29 Aug 30 1938 30 Aug 31 1938 31 September 1938 September Sep 1 1938 ...

The Daniel Guggenheim Medal for 1938 awarded to A. H. R. Fedden for "contributions to the development of aircraft engine design and for the specific design of the sleeve valve aircraft engine."

... Turner. Clarke also edits the Bulletin of the British Interplanetary Society and with the September 1938 issue increases the size to 12 pages of mimeographed text, approximately 3000 words. Image:26sep1938novaeterrae ...

Ralph A. Smith presents the work of the BIS technical committee to the membership in the form of a lecture about the proposed BIS lunar vehicle. Details of his talk were summarized by Arthur C. Clarke in the October 1938 issue of the Bulletin of the BIS .

Spanish rebel planes began daily bombing of Barcelona from Majorca.

British Hurricane fighter flown from Edinburgh to Northolt, near London, at an average speed of 408.75 mph, J. W. Gillan as pilot.

Secretary of Interior Ickes approved purchase by the Federal Government of helium plants at Dexter, Kans., thus giving the Government a virtual monopoly. On May 11, his refusal to sell helium to Germany was upheld by the President.

The good-will flight to Buenos Aires of six B-17's under LL Col. Robert D. Olds, which had left Miami on February 17, returned to Langley Field, Va.

Navy delivered XF2A-1 to Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA , which marked initiation of full-scale wind tunnel tests, which resulted in increasing speed of the XF2A-1 by 31 mph and led to utilization of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA testing of other high performance aircraft by both the Army and the Navy. Data ...

Routine use of radiosondes initiated at NAS Anacostia, Washington, D.C. By the end of the year the balloon-curried radio meteorographs were also used In Navy fleet operations.

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