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Secretary of the Navy approved Naval Ordnance Test Station to be located on west coast and to be under cognizance of BuOrd. In December, its site was selected at Inyokern, China Lake, Calif.

Department of Aviation Medicine and Physiological Research was authorized at NAMC Philadelphia.

Gen. H. H. Arnold, Chief of Air Staff, directed and authorized emphasis on research, development, and procurement of guided missiles, as indicated by known German advances. Theodore von Karman submitted proposal to Army Ordnance for developing long-range surface-to-surface missiles. In response to military characteristics established by the Coast Artillery Board for a radio-controlled ...

The first major Eighth Air Force assault on German V-weapon sites was made when 670 B-17's and B-24's bombed the Pas de Calais area.

The rocket aircraft research program conceived by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA 's John Stack, to investigate the flight characteristics of an airplane flying beyond the speed of sound or Mach 1. First turbojet light bomber flight, the German Arado Ar-234B, which was powered by two Junkers .004 engines. Arthur C. Clarke begins a correspondence with C.S. Lewis regarding ...

French employed first air-to-air combat rockets, four Le Prieur rockets attached to each strut of Nieuport fighter, credited with downing of German hydrogen-inflated Zeppelin LC-77. The Belgian, Willy Coppens and Briton, Albert Bail, reportedly used rockets effectively against German balloons until incendiary bullets were developed.

Curtiss 18-T two-place lighter powered by a Curtiss-Kirkham K-12-350, made first flights, reached speed of 162 mph.

Central Committee for the Study of Rocket Propulsion established in the Soviet Union.

Oleo landing gear tested by Navy on NB-1 at Seattle.

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA analysis of basic aeronautical legislation was accepted by Joint Senate-House conferees, leading to the Air Commerce Act of May 20, 1920. This freed National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA of responsibility for regulation of civil aviation and permitted it to concentrate upon the conduct of aeronautical research.

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