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New official American one man duration record of 8 hours 53 minutes set by Lt. B. Q. Jones in a Martin tractor biplane at San Diego, Calif. First transcontinental telephone conversation, New York to San Francisco, by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

First German aerial bombing of Britain, by two Zeppelins, thereby opening up a new era in the exploitation of aeronautics. During World War I, a total of 50 tons of aerial bombs was dropped on London and 214 tons on the rest of Britain.

Navy Bureau of Steam Engineering was allocated $100,000 to contract for the development and purchase of 200-hp radial air cooled engines from the Lawrence Aero Engine Corp. The Daily Mirror newspaper in London shows image of the Cavorite sphere built for the Gaumont motion picture of H.G. Wells ''First Men in the Moon''.

Acting in response to a request from BuAer, the Navy Bureau of Engineering endorsed support for the National Bureau of Standards for the development of radio meteorographs. Later renamed radiosondes, these instruments were sent aloft on free balloons to measure pressure, temperature, and humidity of the upper atmosphere, and transmitted these data to ground stations for use in weather forecasting ...

Robert T. Jones, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley aeronautical scientist, formulated sweptback-wing concept to overcome shockwave effects at critical Mach numbers, and verified it in wind-tunnel experiments in March 1945 prior to learning of parallel German work. It was subsequently checked by the wing-flow technique before the first National Advisory Committee for ...

ICBM Scientific Advisory Committee to the Air Force was transferred to the Office of the Secretary of Defense to assure common interchange of technical information on all missile programs.

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-058'' ''NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR JPSS-1 SPACECRAFT'' WASHINGTON -- NASA on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a sole source contract for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo. This is a fixed price contract of $248 million with a performance period through Feb. 1 ...

''RELEASE: 13-026 - MARTIAN CRATER ONCE MAY HAVE HELD GROUNDWATER-FED LAKE'' --PASADENA, Calif. -- A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution. The new information comes from researchers analyzing spectrometer data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which looked ...

Hermann Koelle delivers talk to the GfW in Stuttgart titled "Dusenflugzeuge und Grossraketen"

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