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| Title |
Model research: the National Advisory Committee for ,Aeronautics 1915-1958 |
| Personal
Name |
Roland, Alex |
| Pages |
769p. (2 vols.), illus. |
| Notes |
Bibliographic essay p.305-320, chapter notes p.321-391. Includes an index. |
| Publisher |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| Publication
Year |
1985 |
| Language |
English |
| Form
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monograph |
| City
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Washington, D.C. |
| Country |
United States |
| Open
Term |
Airplanes and Flights |
| Series |
NASA history series. NASA SP-4103 |
| Abstract |
Comprehensive and detailed history of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), established in 1915 and replaced by NASA in 1958. Though often critical of some of its particular policies, the author describes NACA as a model research organization. Includes scattered and brief, though significant references to the Wright brothers, particulary Orville, who was a member of the committee from 1920-1948; also includes excerpts from a letter by Orville to John F. Victory, Secretary of NACA, Nov. 6, 1931, in which Orville objected to the policy of NACA making public the results of tests paid for by private inventors, and a letter by Orville to NACA in 1944 objecting to what he saw as an unfavorable trend in the awarding of the annual Collier Trophy for the greatest achievement in aviation in America in the previous year, to government agencies or manufacturing companies rather than to individual inventors. |
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