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First test flights of plastic balloons conducted by General Mills at Minneapolis, Minn. for ONR Project Helios. AAF transferred facilities for testing guided missiles from Wendover Field in Utah and Tonopah in Nevada, to Alamogordo Field (subsequently renamed Holloman AFB in New Mexico. Kenneth Gatland chairman of the CBAS and now co-founder of the renewed BIS continues his summary ...

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First successful hypersonic-flow wind tunnel (11 inch) placed into operation at March 7 at Langley Laboratory.

Norton Sound was assigned to Operational Development Force for use as an experimental rocket-firing ship, alterations initiated at Naval Shipyard at Philadelphia in March 1948, and completed October 1, 1948.

Arthur Charles Clarke Arthur C. Clarke delivers paper entitled ''Electronics and Space Flight'' at the monthly meeting of the British Interplanetary Society . The paper was reproduced in the March 1948 issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society .

Michael W. Ovenden delivers paper entitled ''Recent Developments in Astronomy'' at the annual meeting of the British Interplanetary Society . The paper was reproduced in the March 1948 issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society .

Johannes Thiry, Secretary of Arbeitsstab Dornberger At Bad Sachsa from March-April 1945, submits 60 pages entitled "Report On Last Developments And Projects In The Field Of Guided Missiles" to the U.S. intelligence authorities outlining in detail all of the advanced work being done or proposed by the Peenemunde rocket team during the last year of the war.

A. L. Berger of Wright Field received the Thurman H. Bane Award for 1947 for work in developing new types of high-temperature ceramic coatings for use in aircraft engines.

Arthur Valentine Cleaver A.V. Cleaver delivers paper entitled ''Interplanetary Flight: Is the Rocket the Only Answer?'' at the monthly meeting of the British Interplanetary Society . 58 members present. The paper was reproduced in Volume 6 No 5 June 1947 edition of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society .

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