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NACA Ram Jet Model

Description: Mr. Abe Silverstein, Chief of the Wind Tunnel and Flight Research Division at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, Ohio, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, demonstrates the operation of a model ramjet aircraft engine. Silverstein would go on to have a distinguished career at NACA and NASA, eventually serving as the Director of Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center) from 1961-69.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: C1945-10900

Date: June 26, 1945

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