First artillery adjustments directed from an airplane begin at Ft. Riley, Kan., by Army Lt. H.H. “Hap” Arnold, pilot, and Lt. Follett Bradley, observer.
Bell Textron has won DARPA's contest for a no-runway, high-speed drone that will prove out technologies useful for special operations forces and possibly the Air Force's Agile Combat Employment concept. Bell's design converts a tiltrotor to a jet-powered aircraft able to fly at up to 450 knots.