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Observations on over-flying aircraft made by Navy scientists ultimately aiding development of radar, by Albert Hoyt Taylor and Leo C. Young of the Naval Aircraft Radio Laboratory, Anacostia, D.C.

After having been launched from a B-50 bomber over the Mojave Desert in California, Capt. Milburn G. Apt (USAF), flying an X-2 rocket-powered plane on its 13th powered flight, set a record speed of 2,094 mph, or Mach 3.196. In the course of the flight the aircraft crashed and the pilot was killed.

NASA renamed High Speed Flight Station at Edwards, Calif., to be NASA Flight Research Center, consistent with mission responsibility for all but STOL and VTOL flight research at low-speed ranges conducted at NASA Ames Research Center , Moffett Field, Calif.

Robert H. Goddard 's article about his rocket propelled aeroplane appears in the New York Times.

The Raketenflugplatz (Rocket Airport) is founded in Berlin Germany by members of the Verein für Raumschiffahrt VfR .

Robert H. Goddard receives his patent for control vanes which can be used to steer a rocket. Patent 1,879,187.

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