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Jules Verne's ''From The Earth to the Moon'' begins serialisation in ''Journal des Débats''

French playwright Achille Eyraud presents his book ''Voyage à Venus'' to the Society of Arts and Science in Paris. The book includes a description of a reaction powered spacecraft. The device is powered by powerful electro-magnets which in turn run pumps to force compressed water into a series of gimballed nozzles. Unfortunately Eyraud then describes how the vehicle catches its own exhaust which ...

Standard Aircraft Corp. requested to build Italian Caproni and English Handley-Page bombers.

First radiobeacon, one developed at McCook Field, installed In airmail plane for the Department of Commerce. Small car moving on ground controlled by radio from an airplane at 2,000 feet, by Air Service at Wright Field, Dayton.

Douglas DC-1 first flew, forerunner of the famed DC-3.

National Defense Research Committee established Jet Propulsion Research Committee under Section H of Division A, at Naval Powder Factory, Indian Head, Md., to conduct fundamental research on rocket ordnance. C. N. Hickman, who had worked with Goddard during World War I was named as head.

Navy initiated development of Mousetrap, ship-based 7.2-Inch mortar-fired bomb which became first USN rocket placed into fleet action in May 1942. First successful U.S. jet-assisted takeoff accomplished in an Ercoupe at March Field by Lt. Homer A. Boushey (AAF), with pressed-powder propellant JATO rockets developed by Cal Tech. Project TED (EES 3401) established at Naval Engineering Experiment ...

First U.S.-designed jet engine successfully demonstrated at Langley Laboratory, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Jeep, which was never flown but proved invaluable for continued National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA research on gasturbine jet propulsion. 9 inch supersonic tunnel providing airspeeds up to mach 2.5 put into operation at Langley Memorial ...

Naval Air Material Center established at Johnsville, Pa., to include Naval Air Factory, Naval Aircraft Modification Unit, and Naval Air Experimental Station. Serious training of units for field employment of V-2 missile V-2 begun at Peenemünde . In January 1944, operational command of V-2 missile V-2 operations given to Gen. Richard Metz, leaving Gen. Walter Dornberger in charge ...

First launching of a two-stage rocket-propelled research model, the Tiamat missile, which employed six rockets as boosters, had automatic stabilization, its maneuvers were programed, and its testing was the first research program of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA 's Wallops Island Station. Kenneth Gatland chairman of the CBAS continues his summary of rocket ...

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