October 1946

From The Space Library

Army Ordnance initiated Bumper Project for development leading to a two-stage rocket test vehicle, which resulted in use of JPL WAC Corporal as second stage of a V-2.

The second post-war issue of New Worlds Magazine is published in England under the editorship of Edward John Carnell of the British Interplanetary Society.

Kenneth Gatland chairman of the CBAS and now co-founder of the renewed BIS continues his summary of rocket propulsion in Practical Mechanics magazine. In this issues he talks about German Natter aircraft.