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The NACA: A Look Back
The NACA: A Look Back

A television camera is focused by a NACA technician on a ramjet engine model through the schlieren optical windows of…

The NACA: A Look Back
The NACA: A Look Back

This J-34 engine shows icing that occurred during research to find preventive solutions for inflight icing.

The NACA: A Look Back
The NACA: A Look Back

A view from 1944 of the NACA’s Airplane Engine Research Laboratory (AERL) Icing Research Tunnel.

The NACA: A Look Back
The NACA: A Look Back

The NACA’s fleet of test aircraft assembled in front of the hangar at the High Speed Flight Station in Edwards,…

The NACA: A Look Back
The NACA: A Look Back

NACA High-Speed Flight Station test pilot Joseph Walker in 1955 as “Cowboy Joe” and his steed-in this case the Bell…

The NACA: A Look Back
The NACA: A Look Back

These ice formations on the propeller and fuselage surfaces of a test unit installed in the Icing Research Tunnel at…

The NACA: A Look Back
The NACA: A Look Back

In mid-1927, a Langley Laboratory researcher ponders the future of the Sperry M-1 Messenger, the first full-scale airplane tested in…

The NACA: A Look Back
The NACA: A Look Back

Test pilot Lawrence A. Clousing climbs into his Lockheed P-80 aircraft for a test flight at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory,…

The NACA: A Look Back
The NACA: A Look Back

Clad in a fur lined leather flying suit with oxygen facepiece, NACA test pilot Paul King prepares to take to…

The NACA: A Look Back
The NACA: A Look Back

Two mechanics pose near the entrance end of the first wind tunnel at the NACA’s Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.