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Maj. James H. Doolittle elected president of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences IAS .

Capt. G. E. Price flew Bell Airacobra through flight tests.

BuAer issued contract for airborne television equipment capable for use in transmitting instrument readings obtained from radio-controlled flight tests, and for providing target and guidance data should radio-controlled aircraft be converted to guided missiles.

Based upon research of former National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA engineer, Charles H. Zimmerman, Navy initiated development of the Flying Flapjack with award of contract to Vought-Sikorsky for design of the VS-173. Design promised high speed with low takeoff speed.

Navy BuAer initiated steps that led to contract with H. 0. Croft. State University of Iowa, to investigate the possibilities of a turbojet propulsion unit for aircraft.

Beechcraft AD-17 biplane flown to altitude of 21,050 feet over the Antarctic to measure cosmic rays for the U.S. Antarctic Expedition, piloted by T. Sgt. T. A. Petras (USMC).

First civilian casualties in Britain due to air raids, during Luftwaffe attack on Scapa Flow.

Naval Aircraft Factory established project for adapting radio controls to a torpedo-carrying TG-2 airplane.

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