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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.

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

Metal workers fabricate cowlings for early test installations.

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

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

Haze Over Santiago Chile After Quake
Haze Over Santiago Chile After Quake

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