
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.

Metal workers fabricate cowlings for early test installations.

The first meeting of the NACA in the Office of The Secretary Of War on April 23, 1915.

Haze lingered over the metropolitan area of Santiago, Chile, following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake on February 27, 2010. In an…