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** A Honeywell HDC-701 flight computer which employed non-destructive read out ( NDRO ) plated wire memory instead of rotating magnetic disk for primary storage was developed as a backup for the D37D, but was never adopted.
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** and Honeywell
** Multics ( MIT, GE, Bell Labs for the GE-645 and later the Honeywell 6180 ) ( opened for paying customers in October )
** Principal subcontractors: Rocketdyne ( Atlas engine, MA-5 ); Pratt & Whitney ( Centaur engine, RL-10 ) and Honeywell & Teledyne ( avionics )
** and flight
** Ocean track, in flight planning, the path of an aircraft as determined by heading, slip, and wind effects
** The Lockheed's top-secret stealth aircraft project, designated Have Blue, precursor to the U. S. F-117A Nighthawk, makes its first flight.
** The only flight of the German ramming unit known as the Sonderkommando Elbe takes place, resulting in the loss of some 24 B-17s and B-24s of the United States Eighth Air Force.
** A BOAC scheduled passenger flight, a DC-3 with registration G-AGBB, ( formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis ), enroute between Lisbon and Bristol, is attacked over the Bay of Biscay by German fighters.
** Howard Hughes nearly dies in a test flight of the Hughes XF-11 and crashes it in a suburban Beverly Hills neighborhood because of a propeller malfunction.
** Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board.
** Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3 stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles ( the only sounding rocket developed in Germany ).
** Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
** In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on board.
** NASA announces the crew for the Apollo 7 space mission ( first manned Apollo flight ): Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham.
** The first British aid flight arrives in Lusaka ; Zambia had asked for British help against Rhodesia.
** A Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from Jeddah crashes in Kano, Nigeria ; 176 people are killed.
** Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board ; 176 survive the crash.
** The Hindawi Affair begins when an Irishwoman is found unknowingly carrying explosives onto an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv.
** and computer
** Console ( video game CLI ), a command-line user interface element for personal computer games originating in Quake
** Commodore 64 ( or C64 or C = 64 ), an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August 1982, the single best-selling personal computer model of all-time
** Commodore 128 ( or C128, CBM 128, or C = 128 ), a home / personal computer introduced in January 1985, the last 8-bit machine commercially released by Commodore Business Machines
** Commodore Plus / 4, a home / personal computer featuring standard office software applications built-in, released in 1984
** Commodore PET, Commodores first full-featured computer, a home / personal computer first produced in 1977
** Gauntlet: The Deeper Dungeons, an expansion pack for the home computer ports of the original Gauntlet
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