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First Navy aircraft with retractable landing gear, the XFF-1 two-seat fighter, ordered from Grumman Aircraft.

British Government disclosed that Adolf Hitler of Germany had declared that the German Air Force had reached parity with the Royal Air Force at a recent conference with British representatives in Germany. While untrue, Hitler's statement had a profound impact upon British aeronautical and defense efforts.

Research building of the AAF School of Aviation Medicine opened officially, housing 27 officers and 35 civilian staff members, and 4 altitude decompression chambers.

USAF Air Research and Development Command ( Air Research and Development Command ARDC ) became operational, to which was assigned : Air Development Force at Wright Field ; AF Cambridge Research Division ; AF Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB ; and the Holloman AFB R&D establishment (later AFMDC). Later the Arnold Engineering Development Center (Tullahoma, Tenn.) ; AF Armament Center ...

In a message to Congress, President Eisenhower proposed the establishment of a National Aeronautics and Space Agency into which the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics would be absorbed. This agency was to have responsibility for civilian space science and aeronautical research. It would conduct research in these fields in its own facilities or by contract and would also perform military ...

At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the American Interplanetary Society G. Edward Pendray was elected President, Nathaniel Schachner as vice-president, Samuel Lichtenstein as treasurer, Charles P. Mason as secretary and Lee Gregory Pendray as librarian.

''RELEASE: 10-339'' ''NASA'S ODYSSEY SPACECRAFT SETS EXPLORATION RECORD ON MARS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA's Mars Odyssey, which launched in 2001, will break the record Wednesday for longest-serving spacecraft at the Red Planet. The probe begins its 3,340th day in Martian orbit at 8:55 p.m. EST on Wednesday to break the record set by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which orbited Mars from 1997 to 2006. ...

''Problems of Heat Transfers in Rocket Motors'' is the talk to the BIS at Caxton Hall St James London by H. Ziebland.

''RELEASE: 13-090 - NASA ANNOUNCES 17TH SCREENING OF SPACE PROGRAM ARTIFACTS'' --WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting eligible educational institutions, museums and other organizations to screen and request historical space artifacts. The artifacts represent significant human spaceflight technologies, processes and the accomplishments of NASA's many programs. NASA and the General Services ...

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