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Navy Bureau of Aeronautics created JATO section to accelerate USN development.

Aeromedical Laboratory, in collaboration with Dr. H. A. Hooten of Harvard University, initiated anthropometric surveys of AAF flyers to facilitate design of weapons and flying gear.

Research facilities at NACA's Langley and Ames Laboratories increased 100 percent over previous years by the construction of new facilities for defense application.

Winter/Spring issues of Captain Future magazine includes Mutiny in Space science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Gawain Edwards.

Summer/Fall issues of Captain Future magazine includes The Man Who Awoke science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Laurence E. Manning.

The Winter issue of Science Fiction Quarterly publishes The Shot Into Infinity a science fiction story by German rocket pioneer Otto Willi Gail.