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In 1917, less than three years after it was created, the NACA established the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory on Langley Field. Both Langley Field and the Langley Laboratory are named after aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley. [7] The Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps had established a base there earlier that same year. The ...
In January 1937 Gilruth was hired at NACA's Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, where he performed flight research.His research led to the NACA Report R755, Requirements for Satisfactory Flying Qualities of an Airplane, published in 1941, in which he defined a set of requirements for the handling characteristics of an aircraft.
Media related to Langley 8 Foot High Speed Tunnel at Wikimedia Commons Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. VA-118-B, " NASA Langley Research Center, 8-foot (2.4 m) High Speed Wind Tunnel, 641 Thornell Avenue, Hampton, Hampton, VA ", 22 photos, 1 measured drawing, 29 data pages, 3 photo caption pages
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Two years following the issuance of Executive Orders 8802 and 9346, the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (Langley Research Center), a facility of the NACA, began hiring more black women to meet the drastic increase in demand for processing aeronautical research data. [2] The US believed that the war was going to be won in the air.
Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834 – February 27, 1906) was an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a professor of astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh , where he was the director of the Allegheny Observatory .
The Variable Density Tunnel (VDT) was the second wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Langley Research Center.Proposed by German aerospace engineer, Max Munk, student of Ludwig Prandtl, it was the world's first variable density wind tunnel and allowed for more accurate testing of small-scale models than could be obtained with atmospheric wind tunnels.
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