A television camera is focused by a NACA technician on a ramjet engine model through the schlieren optical windows of…
This J-34 engine shows icing that occurred during research to find preventive solutions for inflight icing.
A view from 1944 of the NACA’s Airplane Engine Research Laboratory (AERL) Icing Research Tunnel.
The NACA’s fleet of test aircraft assembled in front of the hangar at the High Speed Flight Station in Edwards,…
NACA High-Speed Flight Station test pilot Joseph Walker in 1955 as “Cowboy Joe” and his steed-in this case the Bell…
These ice formations on the propeller and fuselage surfaces of a test unit installed in the Icing Research Tunnel at…
In mid-1927, a Langley Laboratory researcher ponders the future of the Sperry M-1 Messenger, the first full-scale airplane tested in…
Test pilot Lawrence A. Clousing climbs into his Lockheed P-80 aircraft for a test flight at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory,…
Clad in a fur lined leather flying suit with oxygen facepiece, NACA test pilot Paul King prepares to take to…
Two mechanics pose near the entrance end of the first wind tunnel at the NACA’s Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.