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 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
NACA concentrated mainly on laboratory studies at its Langley, Ames, and Lewis centers, gradually shifting from aerodynamic research to military rocketry as the Cold War brought an increasing priority to missile development.
Major NACA contributions to the military missile programs came in 1955-57.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/N/NACA.html

  
 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a U.S. federal agency founded on March 3, 1915 to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research.
U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission - The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
On October 1, 1958 the agency was dissolved, and its assets and personnel formed the core of the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Advisory_Committee_for_Aeronautics

  
 N.A.C.A.(National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics)
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA was established by Congress in 1915 as the government's aeronautical research agency.
In 1988, a special committee of the National Research Council valued the combined replacement cost of American tunnels in the billions of dollars and wrote that the health of these facilities is integrally linked with the health of the entire national aeronautical development effort.
With World War I looming, the committee formed a research laboratory at Langley Field, but it was not established in time to contribute to the war effort.
www.oldbeacon.com /beacon/naca.htm

  
 records.html
Therefore, an Executive Committee (which met regularly throughout the year), composed of seven of the twelve Advisory Committee members, was given the care of the administration of NACA and the general supervision of research.
SUCCESSOR ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT (WITH DATES AND SPHERE OF ACTIVITY TRANSFERRED): National Aeronautics and Space Administration, (09/30/58), all activities.
NACA was responsible for many advances in aeronautical research, as well as coordinating research throughout the civil and military aviation industries.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/nara/records.html

  
 Æ Aeragon Air Index
In answer to these problems and because airplanes had become such important military hardware on the brink of World War I, the US Congress established the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, commonly known as the NACA in 1915.
Because of this and other considerations caused by the Cold War as well as the changing demands that came with rocket development, the NACA was reformulated into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, in 1958.
In the early days of aviation, Aircraft designers had no data that could be used for improving the designs of aircraft.
www.aeragon.com /air/index.html

  
 Langley Research Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Established in 1917 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the Center currently devotes two-thirds of its programs to aeronautics, and the rest to space.
LaRC researchers use more than 40 wind tunnels to study improved aircraft and spacecraft safety, performance, and efficiency.
LaRC focuses primarily on aeronautical research, though the Lunar Lander was crash tested at this facility and a number of high profile space missions are planned and designed on site.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Langley_Research_Center

  
 NASA History Fact Sheet
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) as the U.S. government agency most responsible for advancing flight-related technology.
Building on its roots in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA has continued to conduct many types of cutting-edge aeronautics research on aerodynamics, wind shear, and other important topics using wind tunnels, flight testing, and computer simulations.
Established on October 1, 1958, with the passage of the National Aeronautics and Space Act, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on July 29, 1958, NASA added the development of space technology to the NACA's aeronautics mission.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Evolution_of_Technology/NASA/Tech2.htm

  
 A Brief History of NASA
Building on its roots in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA has continued to conduct many types of cutting-edge aeronautics research on aerodynamics, wind shear, and other important topics using wind tunnels, flight testing, and computer simulations.
A direct result of the Sputnik crisis, NASA began operations on October 1, 1958, absorbing into itself the earlier National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics intact: its 8,000 employees, an annual budget of $100 million, three major research laboratories-Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory-and two smaller test facilities.
The Dyna-Soar was a precursor to later similar efforts such as the National Aerospace Plane, on which NASA and other Government agencies and private companies did advanced hypersonics research in such areas as structures, materials, propulsion, and aerodynamics.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/factsheet.htm

  
 NARA - Guide to Federal Records - Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Related Records: Record copies of publications of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in RG 287, Publications of the U.S. Government.
Records of the President's Science Advisory Committee (1957-61); the National Aeronautics and Space Council (1958-73); and the President's Advisory Committee on Supersonic Transport (1964-68), in RG 220, Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards.
Records of the Committee on Science and Aeronautics (1959-68), in RG 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives.
archives.gov /research/guide-fed-records/groups/255.html?template=print

  
 National Park Service: Man in Space (Wind Tunnels)
[1] The VDT was constructed during the period from 1921 to 1923 at the direction of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).
Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1978.
Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1981.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky4/space1.htm

  
 foreword
The book traces the NACA from its modest beginnings in World War I through the successes and disappointments of World War II to its transformation into the nucleus of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
It told the Committee what to do without dictating how it was to be done, and it gave the Committee latitude to select its problems even as it insisted on practical applications of the results.
A third reason for the success of the NACA was its mission: "the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution.
history.nasa.gov /SP-4103/foreword.htm

  
 GPN-2000-001554 - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
NASA was created from the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics in 1958.
He has been the leading scientific member of the Committee for over twenty-three years and chairman for eleven years.
NACA was the governmental organization charged with the supervision and conduct of scientific laboratory research in aeronautics.
grin.hq.nasa.gov /ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001554.html

  
 NASA Ames Research Center
ARC was founded on December 20, 1939 as the second laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and moved to NASA in 1958.
ARC is active in aeronautical research, life sciences, space science, and technology research, especially information technology.
NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) is a NASA facility located at Moffett Field, California, which spans the borders of the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/nasa_ames_research_center

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002006469
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics--forerunner of today's NASA--emerged in 1915, when airplanes were curiosities made of wood and canvas and held together with yards of baling wire.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration History, United States, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics History, Airplanes United States Flight testing History, Astronautics United States History, Outer space Exploration History
At the time an unusual example of government intrusion (and foresight, given the importance of aviation to national military concerns), the committee oversaw the development of wind tunnels, metal fabrication, propeller design, and powerful new high-speed aircraft during the 1920s and '30s.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/jhu051/2002006469.html

  
 Results Page
This report is a description of a new method of testing aerofoils in free flight devised by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
The resultant force is measured by the tension in the wires, and the direction of the resultant by the amount the wing trails backwards.
A test was made on an aerofoil of the N.A.C.A. #64 section, 6 ft. in span and the results are compared with a similar section tested in the wind tunnel.
eprints.bo.cnr.it /cgi-bin/show.pl?code=248&arch=3

  
 MSFC-01958 - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Pilot
The nucleus of NASA was the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics later named the National Advisory Committee for Aeronauts (NACA).
MSFC-01958 - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Pilot
MSFC-9248174 - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Pilot
mix.msfc.nasa.gov /ABSTRACTS/MSFC-9248174.html

  
 UCB Libraries GovPubs technical reports
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Scientific and Technical Information Program provides:
National Technical Information Service (NTIS) "is the Federal Government's central source for the sale of scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information produced by or for the U.S. Government and complementary material from international sources." Most material indexed in the NTIS database is available on microfiche in the CU Government Publications Library.
National Academy Press is the publisher for the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
ucblibraries.colorado.edu /govpubs/us/techrep.htm

  
 A Digital Library for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - Nelson (ResearchIndex)
Nelson, M. A digital library for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
A Digital Library for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1999)
A Digital Library for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - Nelson (ResearchIndex)
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /nelson99digital.html

  
 Bill Kennelly's History of Hypertext: Vannevar Bush
This was followed in the same year, as Chair of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and by being appointed the director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development by the President, giving him the responsibility for the six thousand scientists involved in the war effort.
www.ultradevguru.com /ver2_hypertext/bush.htm

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 10 (2002)
In 1958 the NACA became NASA with both aeronautics and space in its charter.
In an effort to speed up the reduction of data from their wind tunnels, NASA Ames arranged for the purchase of its first computers in the late 1950s.
Hans Mark, NASA Ames, and Dean Chapman, division chief for thermo- and gas-dynamics, wisely decided to form a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Branch with Harvard as its chief,
books.nap.edu /books/0309084571/html/170.html

  
 Full Records
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; Wright, Orville, 1871-1948; Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950; Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974
Group photograph taken outside of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
In the middle of the front row is Dr. Vannevar Bush and General Henry H. Arnold.
worlddmc.ohiolink.edu /History/Details?oid=2583494

  
 History of the NACA Airfoil Project
During the 1930's several families of airfoils and camber lines were developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).
However, when performing parametric studies on effects of such variables as thickness, location of maximum thickness, leading- edge radius, location of maximum camber and others, it is not always easy to obtain the ordinates of the desired shapes rapidly and accurately.
The ordinates for numerous specific airfoils of these series at a coarse set of data points were published in a series of NACA reports.
www.pdas.com /naca456history.htm

  
 MAGiC NACA Mirror
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 created NASA from NACA.
This is the UK mirror of the NACA Reports Server maintained by the AERADE team.
naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk

  
 early flight
NACA was later absorbed into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Later, during World War II, he became the director of research for the Bureau of Aeronautics of the US department of the Navy.
His research became the basis for later space exploration
roanoke.edu /Chemistry/JSteehler/HNRS301/Space/History/earlyflight.html

  
 U. S. Congressional Serial Set: Finding List
In order to explore the newly discovered potential of powered flight, Congress established the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1915.
Annual Reports, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (Y 3.N 21/5:1/)
As the field of aviation and aeronautics expanded, the government eventually abolished this committee in 1958 and transferred its functions to the new National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
www.wooster.edu /library/gov/serialset/agency/Y3/NACAAnnual.htm

  
 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)-The digital library for NACA's research reports
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)-The digital library for NACA's research reports
NACA was the predecessor organization for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NACA existed from 1915 until 1958.
Aeronautics, Aircraft, and Aerodynamics-General; Combustion, Engines, and Propellants-Rocket engines and motors; Library and Information Resources-Reference resources; Space Exploration and Technology-General
www.scitechresources.gov /Results/show_result.php?rec=1315

  
 First Cross-country Flight of the Packard-Diesel Powered Aircraft, May 13, 1929
LANGLEY FIELD, Va., May 14.---Technical leaders in American aviation gathered here today from all parts of the country for the fourth annual meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, the government technical agency for the study of unsolved aviation problems which was founded by President Wilson.
They came to hear the report of the Advisory Committee on the problems disposed of during the last year and to renew conferences regarding the elimination of gasoline internal combustion engines from aviation.
Today, while the technicians conferred and asked each other what the chances were for having some time in the next ten years a satisfactory Diesel type motor for airplanes, an answer to their problem remained in the visiting ships hangar, padlocked with heavy steel chains.
home.earthlink.net /~ralphcooper/pimagf30.htm

  
 The Ultimate Parawing - American History Information Guide and Reference
Rogallo's wing was considered for use in the Gemini program, but the idea was dropped in 1964.
Francis Rogallo invented the flexible, delta-shaped parawing in 1948 while working for NACA (the predecessor to NASA).
www.historymania.com /american_history/Parawing

  
 Secret Committee Linked To UFOs In 1948?
Also Chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, which became NASA, from 1939 to 1941; as well as chairman of the Joint Research and Development Board from 1945 to 1948.
Was the goal of the secret committee to prove or disprove that these "unconventional craft" i.e., flying saucers or UFOs was a new secret weapon, and or delivery system of the former Soviet Union?
Could this "top secret committee," composed of two of the best scientific minds of the time, as well as the father of "US Intelligence," along with two of the best from the Army and Navy be the "intelligence liaison organization" that Hillenkoetter refers to?
www.rense.com /general45/des.htm

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