Designed in 1945 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (precursor to NASA), the NACA duct was intended as an air inlet for jets. Only it was a failure. The design wasn't any good for ...
It hasn’t had quite the impact of GPS or the atomic bomb, but in the pantheon of items created by U.S. government researchers ...
Before NASA, there was the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. NASA’s chief historian, Bill Barry, tells Houston Matters about the innovations in aerospace the NACA made that flowed into the ...
During World War II, pilots evaluated a wide range of aircraft types for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Test pilot Stefan Cavallo’s flight trials were critical to successful ...
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