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It is a member-only organization that provides programs and events focused on student and professional leadership development, program planning, and concert management. NACA connects higher education institutions (called school members) and the entertainment industry (called associate members), hosting events with musical artists, comedians ...
NACA experience provided a model for World War II research, the postwar government laboratories, and NACA's successor, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NACA also participated in development of the first aircraft to fly to the "edge of space", North American's X-15. NACA airfoils are still used on modern aircraft.
[9] [10] It remained the world's largest wind tunnel until the 1940s, when a 40-by-80-foot (12 m × 24 m) tunnel was built at NASA's Ames Research Center in California. [ 11 ] The West Area Computers were African American , female mathematicians who worked as human computers at the Langley Research Center from 1943 through 1958. [ 12 ]
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The NACA site at Moffett Federal Airfield becomes the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, in honor of Dr. Joseph Ames, charter member of the NACA and its longtime chairman. Key personnel for the new laboratory came from Langley, and the junior lab tended to defer to Langley for some time.
Herbert Hoover presents the 1929 Collier Trophy to NACA Chairman Joseph Ames for the NACA cowling. The Robert J. Collier Trophy is awarded annually "for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the ...
Alfred J. Eggers (1922–2006) – NACA / NASA researcher, developed re-entry bodies and compression lift, managed Pioneer program; Joe Engle (born 1932) Richard Eppler (1924–2021) – sailplane designer; Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881–1957) – aviation and rocketry pioneer, invented the center stick