Events
- Three aerial refueling points are installed on a modified United States Air Force B-29 Superfortress, making it the world's first triple-point aerial tanker. During trials, it keeps six Royal Air Force Gloster Meteor F 8 fighters continuously aloft simultaneously for four hours at a time.
- President Harry S Truman presents the Collier Trophy to the United States Coast Guard for its development of the helicopter.
- With no aircraft left on order and no prospects for new orders, the Curtiss-Wright Corporation closes down its Aeroplane Division and sells all of its aircraft designs, projects, prototypes, and factories to North American Aviation.
- Early 1951 – The Royal Navy embarks a helicopter unit on an aircraft carrier for the first time, aboard HMS Indomitable.
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