He and his wife built and flew kites as a hobby and, since they could not find official backing for the wing ( including at Rogallo's employer NACA ), carried out experiments in their own time.

He was hired by NACA in 1929 at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory as an aerodynamicist to work on the design of the Altitude Wind Tunnel to be built in Cleveland, Ohio as the Lewis Laboratory ( later, the Lewis Research Center, and now known as Glenn Research Center ).

With the creation of NASA in 1958, the NACA was abolished, and its research centers – Ames Research Center, Lewis Research Center, and Langley Aeronautical Laboratory – were incorporated within the new space and aeronautics agency along with some elements of the U. S. Army and U. S. Navy.

Although this specific wind tunnel was not unique or advanced, it enabled NACA engineers and scientists to develop and test new and advanced concepts in aerodynamics and to improve future wind tunnel design.

As NASA Administrator, Glennan presided over an organization that had absorbed the earlier National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) intact ; its 8, 000 employees, an annual budget of US $ 100 million, and three major research laboratories — Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory — and two small test facilities made up the core of the new NASA.

External differentiators included a new front spoiler, wider rear tires, added NACA side air vents ducting air to the brakes, four tail pipes and four tail lights ( instead of six ).

Thousands of documents from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) were photocopied or stolen, including a complete set of design and production drawings for Lockheed Aircraft's new P-80 Shooting Star fighter jet.

Fog ( water particle ) wind tunnel visualization of a NACA 4412 airfoil at a low-speed flow ( Re = 20. 000 ).

NACA researchers pursued this mission through the agency's impressive collection of in-house wind tunnels, engine test stands, and flight test facilities.

It was the first of many now-famous NACA and NASA wind tunnels.

A battery of wind tunnel tests followed, and although little else of the design was changed, including the wing profile ( NACA 0009 ), the performance of the aircraft was dramatically improved over straight-winged jets.

Since 1936, Rogallo worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) as an aeronautics project engineer at the wind tunnels.

* Dryden, Hugh L., and Abbott, Ira H., " The design of low-turbulence wind tunnels ", NACA, Technical Note 1755, Nov 1949.

In 1944 he joined the NACA High-Speed panel and advocated the supersonic wind tunnel, completed in 1949.

* The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ), U. S. Air Force, and U. S. Navy form the NACA-Air Force-Navy Research Aircraft Committee to develop a Mach 6 rocket-boosted hypersonic research aircraft.

* Original NACA press release on Mach 2 flight

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.

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Eastman Jacobs, working for NACA, presented his optimized airfoils for high subsonic speeds which led to some of the high performance American aircraft during World War II.

* Camber-Lift – This marketing name was used to describe Cessna aircraft wings starting in 1972 when the aerodynamics designers at Cessna added a slightly drooped leading edge to the standard NACA 2412 airfoil used on most of the light aircraft fleet.

Streamlines and streamtubes around a NACA 0012 airfoil at moderate angle of attack.

The image to the right shows the streamlines over a NACA 0012 airfoil computed using potential flow theory and applying the Kutta condition as a boundary condition.

* 1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.

Early planning and research were carried out by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ), but the program was officially conducted by its successor organization, NASA.

In order to help make the car more functional, as well as to distinguish it from the naturally aspirated version, Porsche added a NACA duct in the hood and air intakes in the badge panel in the nose, 15-inch spoke-style alloy wheels, four-wheel disc brakes with 5 stud hubs and a five-speed transmission.

It lost the 931's NACA duct in the hood but retained the air intakes in the badge panel.

The 968 Turbo S shared the same body and interior as the Club Sport and visually can be identified by the NACA bonnet hood scoops, adjustable rear wing and deeper front spoiler.

This included the first launch by NASA which was formed from the old NACA.

Bush was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) in 1938, and soon became its chairman.

Richard T. Whitcomb, after whom the rule is named, independently discovered this rule in 1952, while working at the NACA.

* The Whitcomb Area Rule: NACA Aerodynamics Research and Innovation, history. nasa. gov

*, Whitcomb, Richard T, NACA Report 1273, 1956.

* March 3 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.

Potential-flow Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines | streamlines around a NACA airfoil | NACA 0012 airfoil at 11 ° angle of attack, with upper and lower streamtube s identified.

* Roy F. Brissenden, World War II pilot, physicist, aeronautical engineer, mechanical engineer, teacher, inventor, project leader at Hampton, Langley Research Center NACA / NASA ; great genius of the Apollo Program

* Christopher C. Kraft, Jr, aeronautical engineer ; administrator at Hampton, Langley Research Center NACA / NASA ; great flight director of the space program

NACA began as an emergency measure during World War I to promote industry / academic / government coordination on war-related projects.

Crossfield opined his military, NACA / NASA, and manufacturer flight test jobs were to prepare military test pilots for the tasks in which they earned recognition for aeronautical firsts by giving them solid flight data.

FAO / NACA / WHO.

The D558 program was conceived as a joint NACA / U. S. Navy research program for transonic and supersonic flight.

* NACA Wartime Memorandum Report E5H12 08 / 1945

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