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Photographs of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) personnel from 1915 to 1958.

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First meeting of NACA in 1915
George Lewis, NACA Director of Research
NACA 1 and NACA 3
Double the pilots, double the trouble
Joseph Ames
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Meeting
Atmospheric Wind Tunnel #1
Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" Aircraft With Model Wing Suspended
Variable Density Tunnel
Patternmakers
Mr. Carroll in SPAD
Paul King and the Vought VE-7
Metal workers
Max M. Munk
Sperry M-1 Messenger
NACA Langely Administrative Office
Weick, Lindbergh, and Hamilton
Making airplanes
Curtiss Racer
Henry Reid at his desk
Variable Density Wind Tunnel
Metal shop
Fokker Trimotor, 1929
Pearl I. Young
Collier Trophy presentation 1929
Members of NACA
Wright Apache
Langley Laboratory Annual Picnic, Buckroe Beach
Aerials - NACA buildings
Construction of the 30 x 60 Foot Wind Tunnel at Langley
NACA Boeing model 15
The NACA and Charles Lindbergh
The Boeing P-26A
30 x 60 Full Scale Tunnel
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
12-Foot Free-Flight Tunnel
Spin Models
NACA Employees Looking Sharp For a Staff Photo at Ames
Franklin D. Roosevelt at Langley 1940
NACA Executives at Ames Aeronautical Research Laboratory
Groundbreaking at AERL
Zimmerman V-173
16 Foot High Speed Wind Tunnel
Interior View of Drafting Room in ERB
Stability Tunnel
Dedication Day - Visitors to the AERL
Fuels and Lubes Research Operations
P-51 Mustang in Full Scale Tunnel
Engine on Torque Stand
Instrumentation in B-29
General Hap Arnold Visits AERL
The NASA Ames 40x80 Foot Wind Tunnel
40x80 Full-Scale Tunnel
NACA Ram Jet Model
Pilotless Aircraft Research Division
Research pilots with P-47 Thunderbolt Fighter
D-558-1 on ramp with research pilots Eugene May and Howard Lilly
Wing Flow Method
Inspection: Institute Aeronautical Science Group
Flying Boat Construction
Machine Shop Staff Working at Machines
John Stack
First NACA presence in the Mojave Desert... And we have been there ever since!
Ramjet I-40 Engine in Jet Static Lab
Human Computers of 1947
Lawrence Clousing with a Lockheed P-80
NACA Muroc Contingent with X-1-2 Aircraft
Key members of the XS-1 Research Team
NACA Research Pilot Howard Clifton Lilly
Icing on J-34 Engine
NACA High Speed Flight Station "Computer" Room
D-558-1 on ramp with ground crew
Manometer Board Setup in Supersonic Wind Tunnel
NACA Basketball Team
Effect of Twin-Jet Exhausts in Simulation Take Off
X-1-2 with Pilots Robert Champine and Herb Hoover
Early NACA Human Computers at Work
NACA Muroc Employees with a Snowman
John Becker with the 11-Inch Hypersonic Tunnel
8 Foot High Speed Wind Tunnel
E17 Drag Research Model
John Griffith casually leaning out the hatch of X-1 #2
RM-10 Research Model
Differential Analyzer
When was the last time YOU broke the sound barrier?
Woman Computer with Microscope and Calculator
Kitty Joyner - Electrical Engineer
7x10-Foot Low-Speed Wind Tunnel
NACA pilot A. Scott Crossfield next to the D-558-2 after first Mach 2 flight
Scott Crossfield
Stanley P. Butchart
Walt Disney and Dr. Wernher von Braun
Ames Center Director Smith DeFrance
Republic F-84F on the Ramp at Moffett Field
Pilot Joe Walker and the X-1A
Richard Whitcomb with Area Rule Wind Tunnel Model
Richard Whitcomb examines model
Richard Day conducts an early flight simulation, a roll coupling experiment
NACA Engineer Examines Wind Tunnel Compressor Blades
Control Room - 10ft x 10ft Wind Tunnel
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