Arranged in alpha-numeric order, according to the Central File filing manual shown in Appendix.
Records consist of administrative, budgetary and research correspondence.
D.C. Much of this correspondence includes letters written by Ames staff for the directors signature, or memoranda to file. In addition, there are minutes of meetings of the NACA committees on aerodynamics, aircraft powerplants, aircraft materials and structures, and jet propulsion. Also included are communication with other governmental agencies such as the Navy and Army Air Corps, Civil Service Commision and the Civil Aeronautics Board, as well as private companies such as Chance-Vought and Gruman, with universities, and the general public. Records consist of materials compiled by the Ames Report Unit for publication of research reports. Theoretical and Applied Research, Full Scale and Flight Research, High Speed Research, Research Instrumentation, and the Unitary Plan Design Group.