it has been estimated that spending by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will rise from less than $500 million in fiscal 1960 to more than $2 billion by 1967, and that the electronic industry's share of these expenditures will be closer to 50% than the current 20%.

Francesco Lana de Terzi, a 17th century Jesuit professor of physics and mathematics from Brescia, Lombardy, has been referred to as the Father of Aeronautics.

In late 1972, the Legislature approved a reorganization ( suggested from a study initiated by then-Governor Ronald Reagan ), in which the Department of Public Works was merged with the Department of Aeronautics to become the modern Department of Transportation.

* 1968 – The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U. S. A.

in Mathematics from the University of Rochester ( 1974 ), and a masters degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics, a masters degree in Nuclear Engineering, and a Ph. D. in Nuclear Engineering — all from the University of Washington.

In 2010 the company restructured from fifteen business units into five business areas ; Aeronautics, Dynamics, Electronic Defence Systems, Security and Defence Solutions, and Support and Services.

* Boundary Layer Effect from National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a division of NASA

* May 21 – Army Aviation Section separated from Signal Corps and divided into the Division of Military Aeronautics and the Bureau of Aircraft Production.

Named after Joseph Sweetman Ames and founded on December 20, 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) laboratory, ARC became part of NASA in 1958 as part of the turnover from the dissolution of NACA, having now ( at the last estimate ) over $ 3. 0 billion in capital equipment, 2, 300 research personnel and a $ 600 million annual budget.

These two space probes were built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, and they were paid for by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), which also paid for their launchings from Cape Canaveral, Florida, their tracking, and everything else concerning the space probes.

In 1940, the Weather Bureau ( now the National Weather Service ) was transferred from the Agriculture Department, and the Civil Aeronautics Authority was merged into the department.

IIT experienced its greatest period of growth from 1952 to 1973 under President John T. Rettaliata, a fluid dynamicist whose research accomplishments included work on early development of the jet engine and a seat on the National Aeronautics and Space Council.

Logan is also home to the annual " Small Satellite Conference ", a week long conference attended by industry and academia from around the world, hosted by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Utah State University.

The house where Senna spent the first four years of his life belonged to João Senna, Neide's father, and was located on the corner of Av Aviator Gilherme with Gil Santos Dumont Avenue, less than 100 meters from Field Mars, a large area where they operated the Aeronautics Material park and an airport.

in Aeronautics from MIT in June 1924.

In 1971, the US Civil Aeronautics Board announced that unless US planes were allowed to operate into Dublin Airport they proposed to ban Aer Lingus from landing in New York.

According to Feklisov, he was supplied by Perl, under Julius Rosenberg ’ s direction, with thousands of documents from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, including a complete set of design and production drawings for the Lockheed's P-80 Shooting Star.

He found encouragement in a number of bills before Congress proposing a Department of Aeronautics that included an air force separate from either the Army and Navy, primarily legislation introduced in August 1919 by Senator Harry New ( Rep-Indiana ), influenced by the recommendations of a fact-finding commission sent to Europe under the direction of Assistant Secretary of War Benedict Crowell in early 1919 that contradicted the findings of Army boards and advocated an independent air force.

When the Division of Military Aeronautics superseded the Air Division in April 1918, Arnold continued as executive assistant to its director, Maj. Gen. William Kenly, and advanced to Assistant Director when the DMA was removed from the Signal Corps in May 1918.

She used records from the Civil Aeronautics Administration to gather the data.

* Mustang Aeronautics Mustang II, a two-seat homebuilt sportsplane derived from the Mustang Aeronautics Midget Mustang

In the many discussions that I held with such officials up to the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the President's Science Adviser, not one Victorian demurrer was ever voiced ; and a great deal of helpful encouragement was given ... The idea of government censorship of the Pioneer 10 plaque is now so well documented and firmly entrenched that no statement from the designers of the plaque to the contrary can play any role in influencing the prevailing opinion.

Paradoxically, the same week in which Senator McClellan was attempting to extend the anti-trust act to labor in transportation, the Civil Aeronautics Board was assuring the airlines that if they met in concert to eliminate many costly features of air travel, the action would not be deemed a violation of the anti-trust act.

* Urban Aeronautics ' X-Hawk is a VTOL aircraft which operates much like a tandem rotor helicopter, however it doesn't have the exposed rotors which make helicopters dangerous for personal use.

* 1958 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ).

MIT started its millimeter size turbine engine project in the middle of the 1990s when Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Alan H. Epstein considered the possibility of creating a personal turbine which will be able to meet all the demands of a modern person's electrical needs, just as a large turbine can meet the electricity demands of a small city.

More common names include: UAV, drone, remotely piloted vehicle ( RPV ), remotely piloted aircraft ( RPA ), remotely operated aircraft ( ROA ), and for those " limited-size " ( as defined by the FAI ) unmanned aircraft flown in the USA's National Airspace System, flown solely for recreation and sport purposes such as models and radio control ( R / Cs ), which are generally flown under the voluntary safety standards of the Academy of Model Aeronautics, the United States ' national aeromodeling organization.

From 1969 to 1973, Anders served as executive secretary for the National Aeronautics and Space Council, which was responsible to the President, Vice President and Cabinet-level members of the Council for developing policy options concerning research, development, operations and planning of aeronautical and space systems.

Dr. Hassenzahl is a Senior Fellow of the National Council for Science and the Environment, through which his climate change education efforts are supported by the Nation Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Until May 31, 2003 Tocumen International Airport was managed by the Civil Aeronautics Directorate ( which is known today as the Civil Aeronautics Authority ).

During World War II, the city hosted the Ryan School of Aeronautics, which trained about 6, 000 fliers for the Army Air Force between 1940 and 1944.

He took a course at Philadelphia's Drexel University which offered six months of teaching followed by a six month internship at the National Aeronautics Federal Experimental Center.

in Aeronautics, which he received in June 1925.

* During World War II until 1944, the Sikeston Memorial Municipal Airport which was previously dedicated on July 3 – 4, 1934, was known as Harvey Parks Airport and included long, barrack-style buildings as a site of the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics, which was established after General Hap Arnold asked flight training operations to triple their enrollments.

At the time, Don Cholito joked that he had invented a contraption, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) ( which in reality does not do meteorological work ), what reportedly took the wind out of major hurricanes and either deflated them or veered them off course as to not hit Puerto Rico.

However, the most influential agency upon which the NACA was based was the British “ Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ”.

In 1977, these were all combined to form the NASA Advisory Council ( NAC ) which is the successor to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

Pupin was a one founding member of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) on March 3, 1915, which later became NASA.

In 1929 Boeing also opened the Boeing School of Aeronautics on the field, which expanded rapidly in 1939 as part of the Civilian Pilot Training Program.

Since 1937, the federal Civil Aeronautics Board ( CAB ) had regulated all domestic interstate air transport routes as a public utility, setting fares, routes, and schedules.

In the United States, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) noted in 1920 that air-cooled radials could offer an increase in the power-to-weight ratio and reliability, and by 1921 the U. S. Navy had announced it would only order aircraft fitted with air-cooled radials while other naval air arms followed suit.

In 1934, the then Chief of Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Admiral Ernest King offered Halsey command of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, subject to completion of the course of an air observer.

After air traffic controllers fail to contact its two-person crew – one of them National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) astronaut candidate Susan Reynolds – a U. S. Air Force T-38 Talon intercepts it and finds it flying with frost apparently inside its cockpit windows, but also cannot communicate with its crew.

On 20 May 1963, the US Civil Aeronautics Board ( CAB ) granted Caledonian a foreign air carrier permit for a three-year period under Section 402 of the US Federal Aviation Act.

* The Civil Aeronautics Authority is established in the United States and takes over operation of the air traffic control system.

* 1 July – The United States Navy establishes its first air department, the Bureau of Aeronautics.

The Air Traffic-Collegiate Training Initiative ( AT-CTI ) program is a partnership between the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) and Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology to provide the academic preparation necessary for students interested in air traffic control careers.

In 1949, the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded Flying Tiger Line the first commercial air cargo route in the U. S., a transcontinental route from Los Angeles and San Francisco, California to Boston, Massachusetts.

In the mid-1950s, an air traffic control center for joint use by the Navy, Air Force, and Civil Aeronautics Administration was approved and completed at a cost of $ 325, 000.

For air transport, the Minnesota Aeronautics Commission was created in 1933.

In the mid-1960s he was a professor and head of the Department of Aeronautics at San Bernardino Valley College and an experienced pilot of midget air racers.

:( a ) Except as provided in subsection ( c ), notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither the Secretary of Transportation, the Civil Aeronautics Board, nor any other officer or employee of the United States shall issue, reissue, amend, revise, or otherwise modify ( either by action or inaction ) any certificate or other authority to permit or otherwise authorize any person to provide the transportation of individuals, by air, as a common carrier for compensation or hire between Love Field, Texas, and one or more points outside the State of Texas, except ( 1 ) charter air transportation not to exceed ten flights per month, and ( 2 ) air transportation provided by commuter airlines operating aircraft with a passenger capacity of 56 passengers or less.

In addition, a letter sent by the Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Mr. Larry Pogue, to the White House advocated the establishment of a civilian air transportation service to operate airline contracts for the military.

** Order 2009-6-25: tentatively selecting Alaska Juneau Aeronautics, Inc. d / b / a SeaPort Airlines ( SeaPort ) to provide subsidized essential air service ( EAS ) at El Dorado / Camden, Harrison, Hot Springs, and Jonesboro, Arkansas, for two years.

** Order 2009-7-8: making final the tentative selection of Alaska Juneau Aeronautics, Inc. d / b / a SeaPort Airlines, to provide essential air service at El Dorado / Camden, Harrison, Hot Springs, and Jonesboro, Arkansas.

** Order 2009-6-25: tentatively selecting Alaska Juneau Aeronautics, Inc. d / b / a SeaPort Airlines ( SeaPort ) to provide subsidized essential air service ( EAS ) at El Dorado / Camden, Harrison, Hot Springs, and Jonesboro, Arkansas, for two years.

** Order 2009-7-8: making final the tentative selection of Alaska Juneau Aeronautics, Inc. d / b / a SeaPort Airlines, to provide essential air service at El Dorado / Camden, Harrison, Hot Springs, and Jonesboro, Arkansas.