1942 in aeronautics

Chronology of aeronautics

1941 in aeronautics - 1942 in aeronautics - 1943 in aeronautics

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  • February 17th: First flight of the DC4, whose military version is baptized C54 Skymaster.
  • April 13rd: First use of a Ejector seat compressed-air, built by the German company Henke and used by the commander of a hunter He 280 which manages to eject apparatus with more 2  000 m of altitude.
  • May 28th: First use of a hunter of night equipped with a Radar, the De Havilland Mosquito MK II.
  • May 29th: Development of the first model of the CA-12 Boomerang, comparable with the Japanese apparatuses for its tactical possibilities. It at summer built in the urgency (5 months), whereas the Australia feared a Japanese invasion.
  • October 3rd: First successful launch of a ballistic rocket: the stratospheric rocket V2 of Wernher von Braun.
  • November: Startup of the first hunter German bomber Focke-Wulf FW 190 F.
  • December 24th: The first launching of a flying bomb V1 on the basis of island of Peenemünde.

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