# The NACA

Established in 1915, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was transformed into NASA on October 1, 1958.

NACA Laboratory Computers Help Compile Handbook: ''Monroe Methods for Algebra, " a new booklet describing short-cuts that can be used...

NACA and city officials broke ground at the future site of the NASA Glenn Research Center. From left to right:...

This photo shows test pilots, (Left-Right) Joseph A. Walker, Stanley P. Butchart and Walter P. Jones, standing in front of...

A NACA researcher prepares a 16-inch diameter and 16-foot long ramjet for a launch over Wallops Island in July 1947....

High-Speed Research Station Director Walter C. Williams, NACA pilot A. Scott Crossfield, and Director of Flight Operations Joe Vensel in...

A SikorskyHNS-1 at the NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory at Hampton, Virginia, test flown by Jack Reeder, the NACA's first...

Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames at his desk at the NACA headquarters. Dr. Ames was a founding member of NACA (National...

Langley actively recruited woman workers to meet the increasing demand of the war effort and offset the alarming loss of...

In this 1945 photo, test pilots (from left) Mel Gough, Herb Hoover, Jack Reeder, Steve Cavallo and Bill Gray stand...

In 1957, NACA researchers adjusted an experimental aircraft model in the original 18-by 18-inch, small supersonic wind tunnel. The facility...

Test pilot Lawrence A. Clousing climbs into his Lockheed P-80 aircraft for a test flight at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory,...

These employees and this equipment supported the flight of the NACA D-558-II Skyrocket at the High-Speed Flight Station at South...

Surveyors in the field taking measurements for the NACA’s engine laboratory in August 1941

John W. “Jack” Boyd explaining the efficiencies of conical camber. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett...

Christine Truax supervised the center’s computation activities from 1942 to 1967. Truax, a former educator in her native Mississippi, prided...

The NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit received permanent status from Hugh L. Dryden, the NACA's Director of Research. The unit...

August 15, 1956. Mary W, Jackson first person in the front row right side. Mrs. Jackson had begun her studies...

Dorothy Simon greets Dr. N.P. Moore of the Imperial College London during a September 1954 visit to the NACA. Simon...

The U.S. Navy's Brewster Buffalo experimental aircraft is tested at Langley's full-size wind tunnel in 1938 during its drag-cleanup studies.

Howard C. “Tick” Lilly piloted the D-558-I transonic research aircraft and the Bell X-1. He was the first NASA, formally...

Flight research was an important part of the center’s activities during NACA.

National leaders in aeronautic research toured the center’s research laboratories.

NASA Lewis researchers presented their work in ion engine technology at a showcase in 1958.

The first meeting of the NACA in the Office of The Secretary Of War on April 23, 1915.

In this March 29, 1929 photograph, Pearl I. Young is working in the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory's Flight Instrumentation Facility...

O3U-1 (Corsair) Airplane in Langley Full Scale Wind Tunnel. (this view shows an engineer standing in front of the airplane...

Kitty O'Brien Joyner, NACA Langley's first female engineer.

NACA women computers had degrees in mathematics or taught math before they were hired. They reduced film data and plotted...

Max Munk developed the groundbreaking Variable Density Tunnel and revolutionized how to assess wing shapes, which led to better airplane...

This NACA High-Speed Flight Station photograph of the Century Series fighters in formation flight was taken in 1957.

NACA's Special Committee on Space Technology, called the Stever Committee after its chairman, Guyford Stever, meets at the NACA Lewis...

Henry Reid, the longest-serving head of NACA and NASA Langley, led the lab from 1926 until 1960.

Langley actively recruited woman workers to meet the increasing demand of the war effort and offset the alarming loss of...

Douglas manufactured three airframes. They flew a total of 312 flights between 1948-1956. This was a joint program among the...

The employees of the NACA High-Speed Flight Station are gathered for a 1954 photo shoot on the front steps of...

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) emblem

Richard Whitcomb examines a model designed in accordance with his transonic area rule.

Before there was a “Silicon Valley,” there was the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory between Mountain View and Sunnyvale in California, founded...

The scene is NACA's 40 x 80 foot wind tunnel at Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California, which when it...

December 20, 2014 marks NASA Ames Research Center's 75th Anniversary.

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