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.
This analog computing machine-a very early version of the modern computer-was located in the Fuel Systems Building at the Lewis…
A flight test of a P-61 aircraft using a ramjet engine, which was used to propel missiles.
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…
