The NACATesting advanced designs for high-speed aircraft in 1948, an engineer makes final calibrations to a model mounted in the 6...In this photo taken on March 15, 1929, a quartet of NACA staff conduct tests on airfoils in the Variable...U.S. Air Force test pilot Maj. Arthur "Kit" Murray is shown with the Bell X-1A rocket plane.NACA High-Speed Flight Station test pilot Joseph Walker in 1955 as "Cowboy Joe" and his steed-in this case the Bell...This J-34 engine shows icing that occurred during research to find preventive solutions for inflight icing.A television camera is focused by a NACA technician on a ramjet engine model through the schlieren optical windows of...Clad in a fur lined leather flying suit with oxygen facepiece, NACA test pilot Paul King prepares to take to...Metal workers fabricate cowlings for early test installations.A group picture of Douglas airplanes, taken for a photographic promotion in 1954, at what is now known as the...This analog computing machine-a very early version of the modern computer-was located in the Fuel Systems Building at the Lewis...E52-0670The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 aircraft on the ramp at NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station located on the South Base...The Bell Aircraft Company X-2 (46-674) drops away from its Boeing B-50 mothership.The first plane to reach Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound, was the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket. Civilian test...Twin jet exhausts are inclined toward the ground to simulate takeoff conditions for certain engine installations and to identify options...The historical evolution of airfoil sections from 1908-1944. The last two shapes are low-drag sections designed to have laminar (uninterrupted)...This group photo was taken on steps of Langley Research Building on Nov. 5, 1928. In the front row are,...A semispan airplane model and flow-direction vane mounted on the wing of a P-51D airplane for transonic tests by wing-flow...Among the famous visitors to NACA facilities: Fred E. Weick, head of the Propeller Research Tunnel section from 1925-1929, in...Many of Langley Laboratory's early experiments focused on ways to reduce aircraft drag. One method was to place a cowling...The NACA's seal.A flight test of a P-61 aircraft using a ramjet engine, which was used to propel missiles.A view from 1944 of the NACA's Airplane Engine Research Laboratory (AERL) Icing Research Tunnel.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...The honeycombed, screened center of this open-circuit air intake for Langley's first wind tunnel insured a steady, nonturbulent flow of...
