• The Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (ACA) was a UK agency founded on 30 April 1909, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research...
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    The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a United States federal agency that was founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and...
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  • revitalizing American aviation by establishing the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), an organization dedicated to the science of flight...
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  • The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created in 1958 from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and other related...
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    Vannevar Bush (category Medal for Merit recipients)
    National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1938, and soon became its chairman. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC)...
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  • 2005) was an aeronautics engineer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and later, for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
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    engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)...
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    States Air Force. Scriven was first Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1915–1916), the forerunner of NASA. George Percival Scriven...
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    associated manufacturing processes. The Act abolished the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), transferring its activities and resources to NASA...
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    space program, aeronautics research and space research. Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give...
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    Douglas Aircraft Company for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, in conjunction with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The Skystreak...
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    Hopkins University and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), Theodorsen went to NACA in 1929 as an...
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    made the problem more complex. Propeller research for National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was directed by William F. Durand from 1916...
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    American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton...
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    designated originally as the XS-1, and was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics–U.S. Army Air Forces–U.S. Air Force supersonic research project...
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    Its value for the dynamic stabilization of missiles led to it being promptly studied by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). It proved...
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    Corporation, the United States Army Air Forces and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to explore aerodynamic problems of supersonic flight...
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    University. In 1955, Annie Easley began her career at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the precursor to NASA, after reading a newspaper article...
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    Jerome Clarke Hunsaker (category Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Medal winners)
    support. His WW2 chairmanship of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was notable for favouring the development of existing aircraft...
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    (1907–1967) was one of the first Black female computers for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Mann was born in 1907, in Covington, Georgia...
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  • in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. NACA is the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a former federal agency of the US government, the forerunner...
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    site for NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center prior to the eventual selection of Houston, Texas. Established in 1917 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...
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  • NACA score (category National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics)
    A NACA score (or National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics score) is a scoring system of the severity in cases of medical emergencies such as injuries...
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    7, 1995) was an American engineer, leader of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) group at Edwards Air Force Base in the 1940s and 1950s...
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    who played a crucial role in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She was...
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    aeronautical research administration, known then as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA. It was the first government-sponsored organization...
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    Max Munk (category National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics)
    1986) was a German aerospace engineer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in the 1920s and made contributions to the...
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    manager at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). He was instrumental...
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    Virginia Tucker (category National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics)
    was an American mathematician whose work at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the precursor to NASA, allowed engineers to design...
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    although a handful continued to be flown for experimental purposes by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) up to the end of the decade. The...
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