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Technicians are pictured installing flaps and wiring on a flying-boat model, circa 1944 (page 47). Photograph...
STS-132 ET-136 ARRIVAL THRU PORT CANAVERAL
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
16 Foot Wind Tunnel personnel at work
NACA Photographer Electrically heated airfoil - wing glove on C-46 airplane
Mechanic prepares a General Electric I-40 turbojet for testing (NASA C1946-15677).
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility-3 engine shop at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
Douglas XBT2D-1 (Bu. No. 09086) Skyraider prototype Note: Used in publication Flight Research at Ames; 57 Years of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the 80-foot lightning mast...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's Project Morpheus prototype lander soars high during a free flight test at the north...
NACA Photographer Electrically heated airfoil - wing glove on C-46 airplane
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Crew members in a skiff from Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval...
NACA photographer Aerial view newly completed NACA Ames Research Center 12ft Pressure Wind Tunnel N-206
Instrumentation in 16 Foot Wind Tunnel manometer boards
A Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star jet aircraft on the tarmac at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)...
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio as seen...
The X-1E research aircraft provides a striking view at the entrance of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center,...
NASA Ames Research Center's 1x3 1/2ft wind tunnel (to illustrate 1946 budget)
NASA Ames Research Center's 1x3 1/2 ft wind tunnel (to illustrate 1946 budget)
General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the staff of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight...
On March 22, 1946, 250 members of the Institute of Aeronautical Science toured the NACA’s Aircraft Engine Research...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Discovery nears bay 3 of the Orbiter Processing Facility after being towed from NASA...
A Consolidated B-25M Liberator modified for icing research by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)...
A V-2 rocket takes flight at White Sands, New Mexico, in 1946. The German engineers and scientists who developed the...