SP-4103 Model Research - Volume
1
The NACA Main Committee at its
semiannual meeting 21 April 1921. The Committee had just met with
President harding at the White House. (Photograph used by permission
of Underwood Photo Archives Ltd., San Francisco).
Contents
Vol. I
Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
- 1. The Quest for a National
Aeronautical Laboratory: Progress, Preparedness, and
Progressivism, 1910-1915.
- Like-Minded
Men.
- The Chambers
Report.
- The Woodward
Commission Debacle.
- The Smithsonian
Try.
- Caesarian Section by
Dr. Walcott.
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- 2. War Business: A Laboratory and
Licensing; Committees and Engines, 1915-1918.
- What to
Do.
- Engines and
Industry.
- The Cross-Licensing
Agreement.
- Building a
Future.
- Defining the
Future.
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- 3. Advice and Politics,
1919-1926.
- A National Aviation
Policy.
- The Dangers of
Controversy.
- Commerce Takes
Over.
- Saved by the
Bill.
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- 4. Tunnel Vision,
1919-1926.
- George Lewis: The
Organization.
- The
Budget.
- The Langley
Laboratory.
- Max Munk: The
Research Program.
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- 5. Working With Industry,
1926-1930.
- The NACA
Style.
- Industry as
Client.
- The Uses of the
Cowling.
- Pleasing
Everyone.
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- 6. The Uses of Adversity,
1931-1936.
- Reorganization.
- The Critics
Attack.
- The NACA
Defense.
- Decline and
Recovery.
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- 7. Girding for War,
1936-1941.
- Domestic
Distractions.
- The Sunnyvale
Laboratory.
- The Engine Research
Laboratory.
- The NACA's Role in
War.
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- 8. What Price Victory,
1941-1945.
- Before Pearl
Harbor.
- Wartime
Operations.
- Jet
Propulsion.
- Looking Beyond the
War.
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- 9. The Writing on the Tunnel Wall,
1946-1950.
- The New Scheme of
Things.
- The Rise of
Industry.
- The National Unitary
Wind Tunnel Plan.
- Hard
Times.
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- 10. New Genius, Old Bottle,
1945-1950.
- Director of the
NACA.
- The Transition from
War to Peace.
- Satisfying
Industry.
- Whither
NACA?.
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- 11. Doubting Thomases,
1950-1955.
- A Reversal in
War.
- The Fat in the
Fire.
- The NACA
Defense.
- Enough
?.
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- 12. The End,
1956-1958.
- The Balance of
Power.
- The State of the
NACA.
- Reconstitution.
- From NASA to
NASA.
- Conclusion.
Bibliographic
Essay.
Vol. II
Appendixes
- A. Legislation.
- B. Committees.
- C. Budget.
- D. Personnel.
- E. Facilities.
- F. Research Authorization
201.
- G. Reports.
- H. Documents.
Index.
About the
Author.
Illustrations
- The NACA Main Committee,
1921.
- Samuel W.
Stratton.
- Charles D.
Walcott.
- Jerome C.
Hunsaker.
- Brig. Gen. George P.
Scriven.
- First meeting of the
NACA .
- Main Committee at the
White House, 1921.
- George W.
Lewis .
- Wind tunnel # 1,
Langley laboratory.
- Henry J. E.
Reid.
- George de Bothezat
and others, about 1920.
- Max
Munk.
- Theodore von Karman,
1926.
- Joseph
Ames.
- The NACA
cowling.
- Edward P.
Warner.
- Fourth annual
industry conference at Langley, 1929.
- NACA workers with
cowling, 1929.
- Model helicopter
rotor; airspeed indicator for testing, 1921.
- Langley nacelle
tests, 1933.
- First test in
Langley full-scale tunnel, 1931.
- Ninth annual
industry conference at Langley, 1934.
- NACA Executive
Committee meeting, 1936.
- Power-plants engine
laboratory at Langley, 1938 .
- Annual meeting of
the NACA, 1939.
- Langley 19-foot
pressure tunnel, 1943.
- Smith J.
DeFrance.
- Edward R.
Sharp.
- Ditching test of a
B-24, 1944 .
- Test in towing tank
#2, Langley.
- William F.
Durand.
- Gen. H. H. Arnold at
Lewis laboratory, 1944 .
- Improved
supercharger design, WW II.
- NACA awards for WW
II service.
- Lewis
retires.
- Postwar increase in
NASA work, 1947.
- Langley laboratory
in 1948.
- Airflow pattern,
1947 .
- Conference at Ames
laboratory, 1944 .
- John W. Crowley,
Jr.
- Hugh L. Dryden at
Langley.
- John F.
Victory.
- Free-flight tunnel
at Langley, 1946.
- Icing
research.
- Dryden at Langley,
1951.
- Early analog
device.
- Lewis control
room.
- Airflow from
helicopter rotor, 1949.
- Fire-prevention
research.
- John
Stack.
- D-558 with NACA
instrumentation .
- Transonic-flow
testing.
- Snark missile in
Ames full scale tunnel.
- Aerial view,
Wallops Island facilities, 1947.
- Langley supersonic
wind tunnel.
- "Sound barrier" for
NACA exhibit, 1947.
- Langley 16-foot
high-speed tunnel 1951.
- Stack receives
second Collier trophy .
- Full-scale tunnel
at Ames laboratory, 1950 .
- Turbojet in test
chamber, Lewis laboratory.
- Test of Martin
jet-powered seaplane, 1953.
- Individual
jet-propulsion test, 1954.
- Douglas Skywarrior
in Ames full-scale tunnel.
- DC-6 damaged by
hail.
- Test machine for
structures research, Langley laboratory.
- Calibrating
supersonic tunnel, Lewis laboratory.
- James H. Doolittle
sworn in as last NACA chairman.
- Reentry testing;
Allen with blunt-body model.
- Portable simulator,
Lewis laboratory.
- NACA Executive
Committee, 1957.
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- Vol. II
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- NACA
appropriations by fiscal year: 1915-1935,
1936-1959.
- Total NACA
appropriations by fiscal year.
- NACA organization
chart, 1918 (hypothetical).
- NACA organization
chart, 1928 (hypothetical).
- NACA organization
chart, 1938 (hypothetical).
- NACA organization
chart, 1948 (hypothetical).
- NACA organization
chart, 1958 (hypothetical).
- Aerial views of
Langley laboratory after WW II.
- Ames laboratory
after WW II.
- Lewis laboratory,
1955.
- Pilotless Aircraft
Research Station, 1955.
- V- 173 model in
Langley full-scale tunnel, 1941; submarine model in same tunnel,
1950s.
- Air-return
passage, Langley full-scale tunnel.
- Langley 5-foot
free-flight tunnel.
- Drawing of 19-foot
pressure tunnel at Langley; model of F94F in test
section.
- Langley 16-foot
high-speed tunnel.
- Inspection of
rotor blades, Langley 4-foot supersonic tunnel.
- Automobile parked
in Ames full-scale tunnel; vanes in tunnel.
- Schematic of Lewis
altitude wind tunnel .
- Profile of a
boundary layer.
- Shadowgraph of
transition from laminar to turbulent flow.
- Smoke-flow
visualization of wing at varying angles of
incidence.
- Separation of
boundary layer.
- Transition from
laminar to turbulent flow; maintenance of laminar
flow.
- Camber of an
airfoil section.
- NACA airfoil
sections.
- Eastman
Jacobs.
- Proposed
schedule, supersonic research center.
