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June 19 - Col Albert
Boyd sets a new official world airspeed record of 623.62 mph
(1,003 km/h) in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. (This is still
marginally slower than unofficial German speed records in
rocket-powered aircraft during World War II).
July 15 - Northwest Airlines launches the
first commercial passenger service from the U.S.A. to Asia's Far East
along the North Pacific route with Douglas DC-4 The
Manila, linking Minneapolis/St.
Paul (USA) and Tokyo
(Japan), Shanghai (China)
and Manila (Philippines) by
way of Edmonton (Canada) (technical stop), Anchorage (Alaska USA)
and Shemya (USA) (technical stop). The Northwest Seattle--Anchorage
service offered a connection (at Anchorage) with this new operation
to the Orient. Seoul (South
Korea) was included as a stop on the Northwest Airlines route to
the Orient in August 1947.
October 26-November 7 - Rhulin A. Thomas makes the first solo
coast-to-coast flight by a deaf pilot. (Calbraith Perry Rodgers
was an earlier deaf pilot who flew coast-to-coast in 1911, but was
supported by a team on the ground.)
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