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.

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.

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

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.

In 1939, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA, the forerunner of NASA ) began research at Ames Laboratory.

The nucleus for forming NASA was the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ), with its 7, 500 employees and Ames Research Center ( ARC ), Langley Research Center ( LaRC ), and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory ( later LRC, then Glenn RC ) becoming the initial operations of NASA.

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.

Honored at the White House by President Harry S. Truman were Larry Bell for Bell Aircraft, Captain Yeager for piloting the flights, and John Stack for the NACA contributions.

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.

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

According to one source, " The enabling legislation for the NACA slipped through almost unnoticed as a rider attached to the Naval Appropriation Bill, on 3 March 1915.

The act of Congress creating NACA, approved March 3, 1915, reads, "... It shall be the duty of the advisory committee for aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution ...."

The result was a long string of fundamental breakthroughs, including " NACA engine cowl " ( 1930s ), the " NACA airfoil " series ( 1940s ), and the " area rule " for supersonic aircraft ( 1950s ).

On September 30, 1946, five NACA engineers, headed by Walter C. Williams, arrived at Muroc Army Airfield ( now Edwards AFB ) from Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, VA, to prepare for X-1 supersonic research flights in joint NACA-Army Air Forces program.

The NACA experience provided a powerful model for World War II research, the postwar government laboratories, and NACA's successor: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

In spite of the biplane configuration, the CR. 42 was a modern, " sleek-looking " design based around a strong steel and alloy frame incorporating a NACA cowling housing the radial engine, with fairings for the fixed main landing gear.

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

These helped the U. S. Air Force and the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics ( NACA ) explore the boundaries of aircraft design, and paving the way for the founding of NASA and the exploration of outer space.

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

The first meeting of the NACA in 1915.

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

The first meeting of the NACA on 1915.

From the first flight in 1949 through 1953 the third Skystreak was flown in an intensive flight-research program by seven NACA test pilots, with a great deal of useful data collected on high-subsonic handling.

* 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.

Nearly all aircraft radial engine installations since have used NACA type cowlings.

The thrust generated by both the Townend ring and the NACA cowling was due to the Meredith Effect ( discovered by British researchers ) which was also put to use in the radiators of several aircraft that used liquid-cooled engines such as the Spitfire and Mustang.

Among other advancements, NACA research and development produced the NACA duct, a type of air intake used in modern automotive applications, the NACA cowling and several series of NACA airfoils which are still used in aircraft manufacturing.

NACA airfoils are still used on modern aircraft, up to the state of the art F-22 Raptor jet fighter.

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.

* 1929 Fred Weick, for design of the NACA cowling which revolutionized civil air transport by making aircraft faster and more profitable.

In the NACA Report R755, Requirements for Satisfactory Flying Qualities of an Airplane, published in 1941, he defined a set of requirements for the handling characteristics of an aircraft.

The installation was established in 1942 as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) and was later incorporated into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) as a laboratory for aircraft engine research.

* 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.

Crossfield made a perfect approach and touchdown, but was unable to bring the unpowered aircraft to a halt in a safe distance, and was forced to use the wall of the NACA hangar as a makeshift brake after narrowly missing several parked experimental aircraft.

His work with NACA included the development of an early example of gust alleviation system for an aircraft flying in turbulent air.

This aircraft was delivered to the NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit in April 1949 after 101 flights had been completed by the Navy, Air Force, and Douglas.

General Jimmy Doolittle, Secretary of the Air Force Quarles, Donald Douglas of Douglas Aircraft Company, along with NACA, MIT, and Caltech scientists supported the concept as sound and in the national interest.

The NACA XS-1 ( Bell X-1 )

NACA was pronounced as individual letters, rather than as an acronym.

NACA built a handful of new high-speed wind tunnels, and Mach 0. 75 ( 570 mph, 920 km / h ) was reached at Moffett's wind tunnel late in 1942.

He wrote that a civil space program should be based on a " strengthened and redesignated " NACA, indicating that NACA was a " going Federal research agency " with 7, 500 employees and $ 300 million worth of facilities, which could expand its research program " with a minimum of delay.

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.

He finished a detailed report on the concept in April, but found his work was heavily criticised by other members of NACA Langley, notably Theodore Theodorsen, who referred to it as " hocus-pocus " and demanded some " real mathematics ".