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Chiefly translations from foreign aeronautical journals.
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Chiefly translations from foreign aeronautical journals.
Includes the Committee's Technical reports no. 1-1058, reprinted in v. 1-37.
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics—forerunner of today's NASA—emerged in 1915, when airplanes were curiosities made of wood and canvas and held together with yards of baling wire. At the time an unusual example of government intrusion (and foresight, given the importance of aviation to national military concerns), the committee oversaw the development of wind tunnels, metal fabrication, propeller design, and powerful new high-speed aircraft during the 1920s and '30s. In this richly illustrated account, acclaimed historian of aviation Roger E. Bilstein combines the story of NACA and NASA to provide a fresh ...
Chiefly translations from foreign aeronautical journals.
Includes the Committee's Reports no. 1-1058, reprinted in v. 1-37.