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NACA Cowling #10
Title NACA Cowling #10
Full Description Drag can present a major problem for aircraft and many of Langley's early research was focused upon reducing aircraft drag. One method was to place a cowling or covering over the engine cylinder heads, much like the hood over the engine of a car. By the end of September 1928, tests of cowling #10 in the PRT showed a dramatic reduction in drag.
Date 09/01/1928
NASA Center Langley Research Center
NACA Drafting Room
Title NACA Drafting Room
Full Description A drafting room at the NACA Airplane Engine Research Laboratory (AERL), now known as the NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia.
Date 01/01/1961
NASA Center Headquarters
NACA Langley Administrative …
Title NACA Langley Administrative Office
Full Description Langley administrative office in 1927. Note the blueprints on the table at right lower corner, and rubber stamp tree on the man's desk in left foreground.
Date 01/01/1927
NASA Center Langley Research Center
NACA Langley High Speed Tunn …
Title NACA Langley High Speed Tunnel
Full Description The 8 Foot High Speed Wind Tunnel at the NACA Langley Aeronautical Laboratory provided the means for testing large models and some full scale components at a simulated speed of 500 miles per hour.
Date 01/01/1936
NASA Center Langley Research Center
NACA Physics Laboratory
Title NACA Physics Laboratory
Full Description A Physics Laboratory at the NACA Airplane Engine Research Laboratory (AERL), now known as the NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia.
Date 01/01/1961
NASA Center Headquarters
NACA Seal
Title NACA Seal
Full Description This is the official seal for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) which was established by an act of Congress in March 1915. The seal depicts the first human-controlled, powered flight made by the Wright brothers in December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. NACA was later incorporated into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958.
Date 01/01/1961
NASA Center Headquarters
NACA Standard Insignia
Title NACA Standard Insignia
Full Description On April 24, 1941, at the semi-annual meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the official NACA Standard Seal was approved to be used on buildings under construction. The insignia portrayed a shield with a wing on either side and the letters "NACA" inscribed across it.
Date 04/24/1941
NASA Center Headquarters
NACA Tunnel #1
Title NACA Tunnel #1
Full Description Test section and balance for Atmospheric Wind Tunnel (AWT) #1. The 5 foot diameter circular test section and control room of NACA Tunnel No. 1. A Curtiss "Jenny" model can be seen mounted in the test section. Both a real JN4H and a highly accurate model were put through identical tests. The NACA engineers used this data to make the necessary corrections to the wind tunnel.
Date 5/22/1921
NASA Center Langley Research Center
NACA's 9th Annual Aircraft E …
Title NACA's 9th Annual Aircraft Engineering Research Conference
Full Description Eight of the twelve members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics attending the 9th Annual Aircraft Engineering Research Conference posed for this photograph at Langley Field, Virginia, on May 23, 1934. Those pictured are (left to right): Brig. Gen. Charles A. Lindbergh, USAFR Vice Admiral Arthur B. Cook, USN Charles G. Abbot, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Dr. Joseph S. Ames, Committee Chairman Orville Wright Edward P. Warner Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, USN Eugene L. Vidal, Director, Bureau of Air Commerce.
Date 05/23/1934
NASA Center Headquarters
Original NACA Hangars
Title Original NACA Hangars
Full Description The original NACA hangars, 1931. The aircraft parked to the right is the Fairchild owned by the NACA. Just outside the hangar door is a modified Ford Model A that was used to start aircraft propellers.
Date 01/01/1931
NASA Center Langley Research Center
Curtiss AT-5a NACA Cowling
Title Curtiss AT-5a NACA Cowling
Full Description The NACA cowling as applied to a Curtiss AT-5A at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, October 1928.
Date 10/12/1928
NASA Center Langley Research Center
Curtiss Hawk with NACA Cowli …
Title Curtiss Hawk with NACA Cowling
Full Description Curtiss Hawk with NACA Cowling in 1928.
Date 01/01/1928
NASA Center Langley Research Center
Submarine in Full Scale Tunn …
Title Submarine in Full Scale Tunnel at NACA Langley
Full Description In 1950 Langley tested the drag characteristics of what was then the world's fastest submarine, the Albacore, in the 30 x 60 Full Scale Tunnel. Water and air are both essentially fluids of different densities. Air traveling at high speed can simulate water traveling at lower speed for many purposes.
Date 1/1/1958
NASA Center Langley Research Center
NACA Dryden test pilot Howar …
Photo Date 1949
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