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May 20 1918

Army Aeronautics was divorced from the Signal Corps and two air departments were created: Bureau of Military Aeronautics and Bureau of Aircraft Production.

May 24 1918

First consignment of American-built flying boats, six HS-1's, arrived at Paulline, France.

May 22 1916

French airmen successfully destroyed five of six German balloons using Le Prieur rockets on their Nieuport fighters.

May 22 1928

First patent on sodium-filled valves for combustion engines issued to S. D. Heron, engineer of the Materiel Division at Wright Field.

May 22 1936

Herrick Vertiplane, embodying characteristics of both airplanes and autogiros, underwent tests at Floyd Bennett Field.

May 22 1943

German Messerschmitt Me-262 turbojet fighter prototype flight tested at Rechlin. Test flights continued during the year on interceptor type, while series production did not begin until spring of 1944.

May 22 1952

Air Force Aerobee rocket placed an aeromedical payload containing two monkeys and two mice to an altltude of 36 miles, which were recovered unharmed and without apparent ill effect.