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Media:1949-07-29 I30V08.pdf Langley Air Scoop Jul 29 1949

Media:Airscoop1944V3I32.pdf NACA LMAL Bulletin Vol 3 Issue 32 Jul 29 1944 First successful test of Pelican guided missile, two of four launched were hits against target ship 44 miles offshore from NAB New York.

... , Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space, 1915-1960 (NASA, 1961), p. 100. ''

July 29-August 26: Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh made survey flight to Japan in Sirius seaplane, via Alaska and Siberia.

Media:88-07-29.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)

Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, in a letter to Thomas A. Edison said that the Navy required "machinery and facilities for utilizing the natural inventive genius of Americans to meet the new conditions of warfare." This letter prompted creation of Naval Consulting Board of civilian advisers which functioned throughout World War I, and which included in its organization a "Committee on ...

Naval Aeronautic Station, Pensacola, tested sextant equipped with a pendulum-type artificial horizon and reported that pendulum type was unsatisfactory for aircraft use, but that a sextant with a gyroscopically stabilized artificial horizon might be acceptable.

Brig. Gen. William Mitchell led 17 bombers in "raid" over New York.

Bumper No. 7 was the second missile launch from Cape Canaveral . reached highest velocity (Mach 9) attained by a manmade object to date.

First Rockoon (balloon-launched rocket) launched from icebreaker East-wind off Greenland by ONR group under James A. Van Allen . Rockoon low-cost technique was the idea of Alvin Edward Moore who proposed using balloons for both launch and recovery of rockets in an article in February 1937 for Popular Aviation magazine entitled "Space Navigation by Rocket." Later discussions took place ...

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