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Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Includes the Committee's Reports no. 1-1058, reprinted in v. 1-37.
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Technical Memorandum - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Chiefly translations from foreign aeronautical journals.
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Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space
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 ...
Flying the Frontiers
A monumental history of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and its eventual transition into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), from NACA's pioneering high-performance aircraft research and design to NASA's testing of Mach 3 high-altitude aircraft.
