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A 1953 photo of some of the research aircraft at the NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station (now known as the the...
The X-1B reaction control system thrusters are tested in 1958 and later proven on the X-15 as a way to control a...
A group picture of Douglas Airplanes, taken for a photographic promotion in 1954, at what is now known as the Dryden...
In 1947, the American rocket-powered X-1 experimental aircraft broke the sound barrier. X-1 team members from the...
Twenty years before rockets carried the first humans out of our atmosphere, the National Advisory Committee for...
A National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) photographer films the test of a ramjet engine at the Lewis...
Engineers calibrate one of three small supersonic wind tunnels that were collectively referred to as the “Stack...
The Flight Operations crew stands before a Republic P-47G Thunderbolt at the National Advisory Committee for...
Instrumentation in Full Scale Tunnel
The Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) was the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research...
The X-2, initially an Air Force program, was scheduled to be transferred to the civilian National Advisory Committee...
The aircraft in this 1953 photo of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hangar at South Base of...
Women Scientists: Lucille Coltrane, Jean Clark Keating, Katherine Cullie Speegle, Doris "Dot" Lee, Ruth Whitman, and...
Women Scientists: Lucille Coltrane, Jean Clark Keating, Katherine Cullie Speegle, Doris 'Dot' Lee, Ruth Whitman, and...
Women Scientists: Lucille Coltrane, Jean Clark Keating, Katherine Cullie Speegle, Doris 'Dot' Lee, Ruth Whitman, and...
In the center foreground of this 1953 hangar photo is the YF-84A (NACA 134/Air Force 45-59490) used for vortex...
High-Speed Research Station Director Walter C. Williams, NACA pilot A. Scott Crossfield, and Director of Flight...
North American F-100A NASA-200 Super Sabre airplane - wing leading edge deflected 60 degrees for increased lift with...
April 9, 1940 Ames personnel
Researcher Bill Reiwaldt discusses the preparations for a test in the Altitude Wind Tunnel with technicians Jack...
A female computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory with...
Female computers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory copy...
A staff member from the Computing Section at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight...
Early NACA research aircraft on the lakebed at the High Speed Research Station in 1955: Left to right: X-1E,...