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Flight refueling demonstrated In a seaplane by Lt. Godfrey L. Cabot (USNR), by snatching 155 pounds of weight from a moving sea sled.

First afterburner for turbojet engines in America, built at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory .

A Navy Committee for Evaluating the Feasibility of Space Rocketry (CEFSR) was established by BuAer. In November 1945, CEFSR recommended high priority for satellite development and estimated cost between $5 and $8 million.

New world speed record of 753.4 mph in Douglas XF4D-1 Navy Sky-ray fighter, Lt. Comdr. J. B. Verdin as pilot.

Clyde J. Fitch delivers paper "Interplanetary Communication" to the members of the American Interplanetary Society in New York .

Media:80-10-03.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)

''RELEASE: 11-334 NASA AWARDS HISTORIC GREEN AVIATION PRIZE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. --'' NASA has awarded the largest prize in aviation history, created to inspire the development of more fuel-efficient aircraft and spark the start of a new electric airplane industry. The technologies demonstrated by the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google, competitors may end up in general aviation ...

Max Valier tests out his unmanned metal rocket railcar using 36 solid-fuel rockets. It was reported to have attained a speed of 150 mph.

The first London meeting of the British Science Fiction Association takes place in Catford. Eighteen people attend for four hours. Arthur C. Clarke spoke about the BIS and is elected as assistant editor of Novae Terrae .

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