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RM2WBBMN9–F-8U Crusader military aircraft, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , 1957
RMJXX5DD–Joseph Sweetman Ames, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Testimonial presented upon Amess resignation from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1937.
RM2WBXPNP–Workers in IBM 704 Computer Operations Room, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1957
RMT6YJ9R–Aerial photograph of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Ames Aeronautical Laboratory at Moffett Field, California, February 11, 1947. Image courtesy National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ()
RM2WBBMN8–Man and woman working with IBM type T04 electronic data processing machine, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , 1957
RMJXX5EB–Joseph Sweetman Ames, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Orville Wright, Vannevar Bush, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at table with Ames at head, Orville Wright sixth from left, Vannevar Bush third from right, 1938.
RM2RG9WMT–Douglas YO-31A 31-604 (msn 1069), shown mounted in the full-scale National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) wind tunnel at Langley, Virginia. 31-604 was tested at Wright Field as the XYO-31A and was later tested in the NACA wind tunnel at Langley in May 1932, before returning to Douglas at Santa Monica
RMM24FR7–Katherine Johnson, one of NASA's 'human computers' featured in the movie Hidden Figures, is a mathematician and physicist who performed complex calculations that enabled humans to successfully achieve space flight. In 1953 Katherine began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (NACA’s) Langley laboratory in the all-black West Area Computing section. In her career at NASA (formerly NACA), Johnson worked on the Apollo, Space Shuttle, and Mission to Mars programs. Photo: 1966.
RM2RGAAAJ–Boeing YP-29 34-23 (Boeing Model 264). The YP-29 is seen here fitted with an experimental variable-pitch propeller. The aircraft was later delivered to NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) at Langley Field in Virginia. The YP-29 was similar to the earlier XP-940 (Wright Field experimental designation), but with a roomy enclosed cockpit, following the lineage of the P-26, through the Model248-XP-936, Model 266-P-26 and XP-940. Boeing also developed a ship-borne version as the XF7B-1-Model 273.
RMM23P31–Mary Winston Jackson (1921–2005) was an African American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Mary worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career, starting as a 'computer' at the segregated West Area Computing division. She took advanced engineering classes and in 1958 became NASA's first black female engineer. Jackson was featured in the movie Hidden Figures, as well as the book upon which the film was based.
RM2RG9WNG–United States Air Force - Bell P-59B-1-BE Airacomet 44-22650 (msn 27-58) at Wright-Patterson AFB. 30 October 1944 :taken on strength by USAAF, (delivered prior to contract cancellation). 1947: to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics laboratory at Cleveland, Ohio. 1947: To Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, for tests in18 September 1947: returned to USAF. 1950: struck off charge at Kirtland Air Force Base, NM 1951: Displayed in front of the base headquarters at Kirtland AFB. 1955: to New Mexico Air National Guard, Kirtland AFB as a Ground Instructional Aircraft. February 1956: tran
RM2AJC366–Katherine Johnson, pictured here at NASA Langley Research Center in 1983, was one of NASA's 'human computers' featured in the movie Hidden Figures. She was a mathematician and physicist who performed complex calculations that enabled humans to successfully achieve space flight. In 1953 Katherine began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (NACA’s) Langley laboratory in the all-black West Area Computing section. In her career at NASA (formerly NACA), Johnson worked on the Apollo, Space Shuttle, and Mission to Mars programs.
RM2A59E56–This photo shows test pilots, (Left-Right) Joseph A. Walker, Stanley P. Butchart and Walter P. Jones, standing in front of the Douglas D-558-II Skystreak, in 1952. These three test pilots at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ High-Speed Flight Research Station probably were discussing their flights in the aircraft.
RM2E9BBY5–A U.S. Army Air Force De Havilland Canada Mosquito which was flown at the U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Langley Research Center, Virginia (USA), by test pilot Bill Gray during longitudinal stability and control studies of the aircraft in 1945. This aircraft was originally a Mosquito B Mk XX, the Canadian version of the Mosquito B Mk IV bomber aircraft. 145 were built, of which 40 were converted into photo-reconnaissance aircraft for the USAAF, which designated the planes F-8. 4 January 1945
RM2M975M1–A Lockheed Altair in the Full-Scale wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics Laboratories at Langley Field, Virginia, USA.
RMM8FFHK–Dorothy Vaughan. Portrait of the African American mathematician and human computer Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (1910-2008) who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and NASA.
RMDB1RP6–IBM TYPE 704 data processing machine used by workers at US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1957
RMT71144–NASA employees inspecting the JUMO 004 Jet Engine with the cover removed at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), Cleveland, Ohio, March 24, 1946. Image courtesy National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ()
RMHDKGRC–A National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) scientist performs dynamic tests on a model support system of the Lockheed C-141 strategic airlifter aircraft at the Langley Research Center Transonic Dynamics Tunnel November 16, 1962 in Hampton, Virginia.
RMT7113A–National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) staff conducting tests on airfoils in the Variable Density Tunnel, Hampton, Virginia, including staff members Eastman Jacobs, Shorty Defoe, Malvern Powell, and Harold Turner, March 15, 1929. Image courtesy National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ()
RM2T3J6KB–Hugh L. Dryden, Dr. Hugh Latimer Dryden, director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).
RMT6YJ19–Photograph of the first meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in the office of the Secretary of War, Dr William Durand, Dr S.W, April 23, 1915. Stratton, George P. Scriven, Dr C.F. Marvin, Dr Michael I. Pupin, Holden C. Richardson, Dr John F. Hayford, Mark L. Bristol, Samuel Reber, Dr Joseph S. Ames, and B. R. Newton. Image courtesy National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ()
RM2K7XGX1–Mary Jackson. Mary Jackson (1921 – 2005) American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
RMDD73W2–Franklin Roosevelt visits Langley Field on July 29, 1940. FDR's car is inside a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
RM2T3J6KT–Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames at his desk at the NACA headquarters. Dr. Ames was a founding member of NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), Joseph Sweetman Ames (1864 – 1943) physicist, professor
RMGE4H8B–Dahl Matay and John Hedgepeth Sr. change the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) sign to NASA at the Flight Research Center (now the Armstrong Flight Research Center) on the first day that NASA opened for business. Image #: E96-43403-04 Date: October 1, 1958
RM2WBBMNB–U.S. Army YH 32 Helicopter, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , 1957
![A human computer at work with a microscope collecting data at Langley Research Center. She sits next to a Friden calculating machine. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hired women to serve as "computers" in the mid 1930s, doing the drudge work of reading data from test results (from film as shown here), calculating formulas and plotting results. Image # : L-74768 Date: March 24, 1952 Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/GE4JDR/a-human-computer-at-work-with-a-microscope-collecting-data-at-langley-GE4JDR.jpg "A human computer at work with a microscope collecting data at Langley Research Center. She sits next to a Friden calculating machine. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hired women to serve as "computers" in the mid 1930s, doing the drudge work of reading data from test results (from film as shown here), calculating formulas and plotting results. Image # : L-74768 Date: March 24, 1952 Stock Photo")
RMGE4JDR–A human computer at work with a microscope collecting data at Langley Research Center. She sits next to a Friden calculating machine. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hired women to serve as "computers" in the mid 1930s, doing the drudge work of reading data from test results (from film as shown here), calculating formulas and plotting results. Image # : L-74768 Date: March 24, 1952
RM2AJC362–Katherine Johnson, pictured here at NASA Langley Research Center in 1983, was one of NASA's 'human computers' featured in the movie Hidden Figures. She was a mathematician and physicist who performed complex calculations that enabled humans to successfully achieve space flight. In 1953 Katherine began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (NACA’s) Langley laboratory in the all-black West Area Computing section. In her career at NASA (formerly NACA), Johnson worked on the Apollo, Space Shuttle, and Mission to Mars programs.
RMPYJ8YJ–This photo shows test pilots, (Left-Right) Joseph A. Walker, Stanley P. Butchart and Walter P. Jones, standing in front of the Douglas D-558-II Skystreak, in 1952. These three test pilots at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ High-Speed Flight Research Station probably were discussing their flights in the aircraft.
RM2T1C0WX–Serbian scientist Mihaljo Idvorski Pupin (1858-1935) was a professor at Columbia University, a founding member of NACA (the predecessor of NASA), a philanthropist, and a scientific inventor holding numerous patents.
RM2M975MP–A 1/40 scale model of the airship Akron in the Full-Scale wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics Laboratories at Langley Field, Virginia, USA, in January 1935.
RMGE4J3P–Swearing in of George M. Low as Deputy Administrator of NASA. The 43-year-old veteran of NASAs Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo manned flight programs was administered the oath of Office by Dr. Thomas O. Paine, NASA's Administrator. President Nixon nominated Low for the post November 13, 1969, and the Senate confirmed him on November 26, 1969. Low, who joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASAs predecessor agency) in 1949, was the fourth person to hold the Deputy Administrator post at NASA. Image # : 69-H-2010
RM2A59E54–A vehicle leaves the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory on August 14, 1945.
RM2A59EWP–Construction of the Propulsion Systems Laboratory No. 1 and 2 at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory.
RMCWFGF9–Early portrait of Neil A. Armstrong after joining the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio in 1955. He transferred to the NACA High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in July 1955, as an aeronautical research scientist. He became a research pilot later that year. Neil was named as one of nine astronauts for NASA's Gemini and Apollo Projects, leaving the Center for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, in September 1962.
RM2B836RP–NASA employees inspecting the JUMO 004 Jet Engine with the cover removed at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), Cleveland, Ohio, March 24, 1946. Image courtesy National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Note: Image has been digitally colorized using a modern process. Colors may not be period-accurate. ()
RFJH01EH–NASA pilot Neil Armstrong is seen here in the cockpit of the X-15 ship #1 (56-6670) after a research flight.A U.S. Navy pilot in the Korean War who flew 78 combat missions in F9F-2 jet fighters and who was awarded the Air Medal and two Gold Stars, Armstrong graduated from Purdue University in 1955 with a bachelor degree in aeronautical engineering. That same year, he joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio (today, the NASA Glenn Research Center).In July 1955, Armstrong transferred to the High-Speed Flight Station (HSFS, as D
RM2B837D0–Photograph of the first meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in the office of the Secretary of War, Dr William Durand, Dr S.W, April 23, 1915. Stratton, George P. Scriven, Dr C.F. Marvin, Dr Michael I. Pupin, Holden C. Richardson, Dr John F. Hayford, Mark L. Bristol, Samuel Reber, Dr Joseph S. Ames, and B. R. Newton. Image courtesy National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Note: Image has been digitally colorized using a modern process. Colors may not be period-accurate. ()
RMKWC3W8–Test pilot Paul King in a fur lined leather flying suit and oxygen mask before take off, Oct. 17, 1925. He will fly the NACA Vought VE-7,from Langley Field, Hampton, Virginia. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NACA, was a Federal agency established in 1915, and was the predecessor of NASA. (BSLOC 2015 14 195)
RMW0M38D–In 1955, Annie Easley began her career at NASA, then the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), as a human computer performing complex mathematical calculations. When human computers were replaced by machines, Easley evolved along with the technology. She became an adept computer programmer, using languages like the Formula Translating System (Fortran) to support a number of NASA's programs. She developed and implemented code used in researching energy-conversion systems, analyzing alternative power technology, including the battery technology that was used for early hybrid vehicl
RMGE4ET4–An aerial view of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California. Image # : A-11166 Date: February 11, 1947
RM2RC0X9A–Chart showing the evolution of aircraft engines from 1903 to 1918. The chart includes the horsepower, weight, and power of various engines, including the Liberty engine, from 1911 to 1918. The chart was issued by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in May 1918.
RMGE4GKM–View of the Hangar and Main Gate at NASA's John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio. Formerly known as the Airplane Engine Research Laboratory (AERL) under the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA),and then renamed the Lewis Research Center, for George W. Lewis, NACA Director of Aeronautical Research. It was renamed the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in 1999. Here aircraft engines and spacecraft propulsion systems are developed and tested. Image # : c1999-892
RMKWC5B4–Test pilot Paul King in a fur lined leather flying suit and oxygen mask before take off, Oct. 17, 1925. He will fly the NACA Vought VE-7,from Langley Field, Hampton, Virginia. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NACA, was a Federal agency established in 1915, and was the predecessor of NASA. (BSLOC 2015 14 195)
![Description: (November 9, 1944) General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold visits the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, Ohio, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. Inspection of ice formation on propeller blades. General Arnold was the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces during World War II and a strong advocate for aeronautical research. Center: GRC Image # : C1944-7494 Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/GE4G47/description-november-9-1944-general-henry-harley-quothapquot-arnold-GE4G47.jpg "Description: (November 9, 1944) General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold visits the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, Ohio, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. Inspection of ice formation on propeller blades. General Arnold was the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces during World War II and a strong advocate for aeronautical research. Center: GRC Image # : C1944-7494 Stock Photo")
RMGE4G47–Description: (November 9, 1944) General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold visits the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, Ohio, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. Inspection of ice formation on propeller blades. General Arnold was the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces during World War II and a strong advocate for aeronautical research. Center: GRC Image # : C1944-7494
RM2T1C0X2–Serbian scientist Mihaljo Idvorski Pupin (1858-1935) was a professor at Columbia University, a founding member of NACA (the predecessor of NASA), a philanthropist, and a scientific inventor holding numerous patents.
RM2M975JG–A Loening XSL-1 single-engine flying boat in the Full-Scale wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics Laboratories at Langley Field, Virginia, USA, in October 1931.
RM2T1GTDK–Serbian scientist Mihaljo Idvorski Pupin (1858-1935) was a professor at Columbia University, a founding member of NACA (the predecessor of NASA), a philanthropist, and a scientific inventor holding numerous patents.
RM2M9A53M–United States Navy - Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat 42874, NACA 158, of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at Moffett Naval Air Station. (Grumman G-50) 42874 was assigned to NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, NAS Moffett Field, CA, which later became the NASA Ames Research Centre from 22 June 1945 until 9 September 1960 as NACA 158, for variable stability research. In 1948, the aircraft was modified by Ames engineers to become the worlds first variable stability aircraft. Used for generalized studies of lateral-directional flying qualities criteria and as an in-flight simulator fo
RMWA43AE–Brains of Aeronautic World represented on National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is photographed in Washington the other day when they met at the Navy Department. The duties of the Committee, as provided by Congress, are to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution. In the photograph, left to right: G.W. Lewis; Charles G. Abbet, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Orville Wright, Inventor of the airplane; Commander John H. Towers; U.S.N., here of the first trans-atlant
RM2M9A68R–North American YF-93A NACA-151 2 (48-0318) 5 June 1951 to 1953: Assigned to the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for aerodynamics research, at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, CA., as NACA-151. (Seen partially stripped at NACA Ames on Moffett Field in June 1956).
RM2A59BT6–Myrtle Lewis and three of her sons visit the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio.
RMGE4GBG–(March 11, 1944) Recording high altitude flight data in a flying laboratory at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, Ohio, now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. The aircraft is a modified B-29 bomber manufactured by Boeing, and backbone of the World War II effort. It was used to determine what conditions cause ice to form on wings and aircraft surfaces. Image # : C1944-4907
RM2A83PWT–General George P. Scriven, first chariman of NACA, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, NASA predecessor ca. early 1900s
RMGE4GA5–(March 5, 1945) These ice formations on the propeller and fuselage surfaces of a test unit installed in the Icing Research Tunnel at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, Ohio, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, show what may happen to an airplane in flight under certain atmospheric conditions. Ice degrades the performance of an aircraft in flight and can cause loss of control. Image # : C1945-8833
RM2A59BND–Edward Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Duke of Windsor, visits the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio.
RMGE4FJ7–Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., served as NASA's Deputy Administrator from December 21, 1965, to January 5, 1968. Before becoming Deputy Administrator Dr. Seamans was NASA's Associate Administrator for five years. Prior to joining NASA, Dr. Seamans was on a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) technical committee. Dr. Seamans had a long working relationship with MIT, where he received his master and doctorate degrees, working as a researcher and professor before his federal service and after his retirement from NASA. Image # : seamans01
RMW0M38B–In this March 29, 1929, photograph, Pearl I. Young is working in the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory's Flight Instrumentation Facility (Building 1202). Young was the first woman hired as a technical employee, a physicist at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the second female physicist working for the federal government. Ms. Young graduated in 1919 from the University of North Dakota (UND) as a Phi Beta Kappa with a triple major in physics, mathematics, and chemistry. In 1922, she accepted an appointment at the NACA's Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (n
RMGE4ETJ–The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Research Center 10ft x 10ft Unitary Supersonic Wind Tunnel is shown in the center of this picture. The Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan Act of Congress, a post-war act, stipulated that NACA wind tunnels were to be made available to industry for testing. This push was to encourage the improvement of existing aircraft engines. This aerial view shows the size of the facility. The Lewis Research Center is now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center. Image # : C1956-42303 Date: March 23, 1956
RMKRKCP2–Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is seen after President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) Johnson's computations have influenced every major space program from Mercury through the Shuttle program. Johnson was hired as a research mathematician at the Langley Research Center with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the agency that preceded NASA, after they opened hiring to African-Americans and women. John
RMGE4GE6–Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames at his desk at the NACA headquarters. Dr. Ames was a founding member of NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915. Ames took on NACA's most challenging assignments but mostly represented physics. He chaired the Foreign Service Committee of the newly-founded National Research Council, oversaw the NACA's patent cross-licensing plan that allowed manufacturers to share technologies. Ames expected the NACA to encourage engineering education. He pressed universities to train more aerodynamicists, then structured NACA to
RMGE4FGA–Description: (November 30, 1956) The D-558-2 #2 is launched from the P2B-1 in this 1956 NACA High-Speed Flight Station photograph. The D-558 Phase Two aircraft was quite different from its Phase One predecessor, the Skystreak. German wartime aeronautical research records, reviewed in 1945 by Douglas Aircraft Company personnel, pointed to many advantages gained from incorporating sweptback wing design into future research aircraft. These findings along with wind tunnel studies performed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, result
RMW0MB8D–NACA High-Speed Flight Station test pilot Joseph 'Cowboy Joe' Walker and his steed, a Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1A, are pictured in this 1955 photograph at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The X-1A was flown six times by Bell Aircraft Company pilot Jean 'Skip' Ziegler in 1953. Air Force test pilots Major Charles 'Chuck' Yeager and Major Arthur 'Kit' Murray made 18 flights between Nov. 21, 1953 and Aug. 26, 1954. The X-1A was then turned over to NASA's precursor, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics or NACA. Joe Walker piloted the first NACA flight on July 20, 1955. Walker attem
![NASA Administrator Charles Bolden provides opening remarks for the "NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] Centenary: A Symposium on 100 Years of Aerospace Research and Development" on March 3, 2015 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Congress established NACA on March 3, 1915 to address and find solutions to problems with flight. In 1958, the NACA staff, research facilities, and know-how were transitioned to the new NASA. Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/EN8H3D/nasa-administrator-charles-bolden-provides-opening-remarks-for-the-EN8H3D.jpg "NASA Administrator Charles Bolden provides opening remarks for the "NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] Centenary: A Symposium on 100 Years of Aerospace Research and Development" on March 3, 2015 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Congress established NACA on March 3, 1915 to address and find solutions to problems with flight. In 1958, the NACA staff, research facilities, and know-how were transitioned to the new NASA. Stock Photo")
RMEN8H3D–NASA Administrator Charles Bolden provides opening remarks for the "NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] Centenary: A Symposium on 100 Years of Aerospace Research and Development" on March 3, 2015 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Congress established NACA on March 3, 1915 to address and find solutions to problems with flight. In 1958, the NACA staff, research facilities, and know-how were transitioned to the new NASA.
RM2T1GTCG–Serbian scientist Mihaljo Idvorski Pupin (1858-1935) was a professor at Columbia University, a founding member of NACA (the predecessor of NASA), a philanthropist, and a scientific inventor holding numerous patents.
RMWB7EXR–Flame propogation in gas engines photographed. Washington, D.C., Aug. 26. A study of the mechanism of the flame propogation in the cylinder of a internal combustion engine is being made at the U.S. Bureau of Standards for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. A secial bomb made of steel, shown in the foreground, and designed to withstand pressures up to 500 lbs. to the square inch is used to show the progress of the flame and the rise in pressure which may be recorded photographically during the gas explosions under carefully controlled conditions. The camera, where the recordings a
RM2HX67KE–Ram-Jet Test Missile -- Shown above is a 16-inch diameter ram-jet missile which has been clocked at more than 1,600 miles an hour in drop tests. The disclosure was made today by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. September 28, 1948. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
RM2HCB76X–The sign near the entrance of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory. The name was changed several weeks later to the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in honor of the NACA’s former Director of Aeronautical Research, George W. Lewis. The research laboratory has had five different names since its inception in 1941. The Cleveland laboratory was originally known as the NACA Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory. In 1947 it was renamed the NACA Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory to reflect the expansion of the research activities beyond just
RM2M0WFE6–NACA Ram Jet Model Description: Mr. Abe Silverstein, Chief of the Wind Tunnel and Flight Research Division at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, Ohio, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, demonstrates the operation of a model ramjet aircraft engine. Silverstein would go on to have a distinguished career at NACA and NASA, eventually serving as the Director of Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center) from 1961-69.
RMW0M2YC–NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which included calculating the trajectory of the 1961 flight of Alan Shepard. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 24, 2015. Johnson began her career in 1953 at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the agency that preceded NASA. One of a number of African-American women hired to work as 'computers' in what was then the Guidance and Navigation Department. She was the
RM2GGBNTD–White, US Navy, single-seat, rocket-powered supersonic aircraft. Piloted by A. Scott Crossfield, on November 20, 1953, the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket became the first aircraft to fly faster than Mach 2, twice the speed of sound. Air-launched from a U.S. Navy Boeing P2B-1S (B-29) the swept-wing, rocket-powered D-558-2 reached Mach 2.005 in a shallow dive at 18,898 meters (62,000 feet). The D-558 series of aircraft was developed by Douglas under the direction of Edward H. Heinemann for the U.S. Navy to explore transonic and supersonic flight. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA,
RM2A59BM7–This aerial photograph shows the entire original wind tunnel complex at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory. September 1945
RMW0MR5K–Neil Armstrong is photographed in the cockpit of the Ames Bell X-14 aircraft at NASA's Ames Research Center. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on August 5, 1930. Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1955. Over the next 17 years, he was an engineer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator for NACA and its successor agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, performing the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft
RM2A59ECF–An engineer examines the main compressor for the 10- by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory.
RM2EBBYDC–Inspection tour of NASA installations: Huntsville Alabama, Redstone Army Airfield and George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, 9:35AM. President John F. Kennedy (center right) views models of the Saturn rocket, during a tour of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; Director of the MSFC, Dr. Wernher von Braun (back to camera), briefs President Kennedy. Also pictured: Representative Robert E. Jones (Alabama); Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Vice Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Dr. Leonard Carmichael. T
RM2WT5GCB–November 5, 1928, Langley, Virginia, USA: AMELIA EARHART Visits the NACA (And Gets Her Coat Caught in a Wind Tunnel! On March 3, 1915, Congress created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the organization from which NASA was created in 1958. NACA research led to advances in aeronautics that helped the Allies win World War II, spawned a world-leading civil aviation manufacturing industry, propelled supersonic flight, supported national security during the Cold War and laid the foundation for modern air travel and the space age. This group photo was taken on steps of Langley
RM2AJET37–Mary Jackson (1921-2005), American mathematician and aerospace engineer who in 1958 became the first African American female engineer to work at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Jackson was featured, along with Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughn, as one of the 'human computers' in the film Hidden Figures.
RM2BAJ518–The NASA Ames Research Center, a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, California, seen on Monday, Mar 2, 2020.
RME12BM4–Dec. 09, 2011 - Marquardt ''Astro'' Director Appointed To NASA Research Advisory Committee: Van Nuys, Calif., April 14 - John A. Drake, director of Astro, a division of Marquardt Aircraft Company, has been appointed to the Research Advisory Committee on Chemical Energy Processes of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, it was announced by Dr. T, Keith Glennan, administrator of NASA.
![NASA Administrator Charles Bolden provides opening remarks for the "NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] Centenary: A Symposium on 100 Years of Aerospace Research and Development" on March 3, 2015 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Congress established NACA on March 3, 1915 to address and find solutions to problems with flight. In 1958, the NACA staff, research facilities, and know-how were transitioned to the new NASA. Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/EN8H3E/nasa-administrator-charles-bolden-provides-opening-remarks-for-the-EN8H3E.jpg "NASA Administrator Charles Bolden provides opening remarks for the "NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] Centenary: A Symposium on 100 Years of Aerospace Research and Development" on March 3, 2015 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Congress established NACA on March 3, 1915 to address and find solutions to problems with flight. In 1958, the NACA staff, research facilities, and know-how were transitioned to the new NASA. Stock Photo")
RMEN8H3E–NASA Administrator Charles Bolden provides opening remarks for the "NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] Centenary: A Symposium on 100 Years of Aerospace Research and Development" on March 3, 2015 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Congress established NACA on March 3, 1915 to address and find solutions to problems with flight. In 1958, the NACA staff, research facilities, and know-how were transitioned to the new NASA.
RMP2HEGD–Donny Tuck, Hampton mayor, speaks at the 100-year Gala celebration at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Hampton, Va., Sept. 17, 2016. In 1916, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics established Langley Field as a joint airfield for U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and NACA aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Derrick Seifert)
RMWA7AC4–Airship experts testify before House Naval Affairs Committee. Washington, D.C. July 27. Testifying before the House Naval Affairs Committee today, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, former skipper of the ill-fated derigible Akron and now commandant of the naval base at Lakehurst, N.J., declared in favor of a new dirigible to replace the Los Angeles. In the photograph, left to right: Dr. George W. Lewis, member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics who also testified; Commander Rosendahl; and Rep. Carl Vinson of Georgia, Chairman of the Committee, 7/27/37
RM2HCB773–Harry Mergler stands at the control board of a differential analyzer in the new Instrument Research Laboratory at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The differential analyzer was a multi-variable analog computation machine devised in 1931 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher and future NACA Committee member Vannevar Bush. The mechanical device could solve computations up to the sixth order, but had to be rewired before each new computation. Mergler modified Bush’s differential analyzer in the late 1940s to calculate droplet
RM2KXX9KY–(1961) NASA pilot Neil Armstrong is seen here in the cockpit of the X-15 ship #1 (56-6670) after a research flight. A U.S. Navy pilot in the Korean War who flew 78 combat missions in F9F-2 jet fighters and who was awarded the Air Medal and two Gold Stars, Armstrong graduated from Purdue University in 1955 with a bachelor degree in aeronautical engineering. That same year, he joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio (today, the NASA Glenn Research Center).
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