Foreword
Part I
INITIATIONS: 1936 - 1945

PREFACE

1. THE NATION's AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH AGENCY.
2. PORTENTS AND REQUIREMENTS OF AVIATION.: NACA Warning; Aggression Rampant; Westover Report; Special Committee on Future Research Facilities

3. PRESSURES FOR EXPANSION OF RESEARCH.: House Committee Turndown; Senate Committee Turndown; Senate Approval; Joint Committee Turndown; The Need Grows

4. THE TIDE TURNS.: Lindbergh Committee; The Strategy and the Victory; Site Selection; Dr. Ames Retires; Engine Research Laboratory

5. THE BEGINNINGS OF A LABORATORY.: Moffett Field; Site Problems; Initial Staffing; The Naming

6. PLANS AND PREPARATIONS.: Facility Selection; Initial Organization; First Research
7. DlSRUPTIONS OF WAR.: War Comes; Distribution of Research Information; Military Liaison and Industry Relations; Moffett Field Reverts to Navy; Organizing for Research; Manpower Problems: The Army-Navy-NACA Plan

8. FACILITIES DESIGN.: First Tunnels; 12-Foot Low-Turbulence Pressure Tunnel; Supersonic Tunnels.

9. THE ICE RESEARCH STORY.

10. FLIGHT RESEARCH.: Handling Qualities from Wind-Tunnel Tests; Airplane Drag in Flight and Wind Tunnel; Critical Airloads; Aileron Flutter

11. THE 7-BY-1O's IN ACTION.: Slipstream Effects.; New Engines: New Problems

12. 16-FOOT TUNNEL FILLS URGENT NEED.: Choking; Dive Control; P-51 Studies; Other Development Tests; Wings for Jet Bombers

13. THE 40-BY-80 BEGINS OPERATIONS.
14. MEN AND THEORY.
15. WARTIME REVIEW.

Part II
A NEW WORLD OF SPEED: 1946 - 1958
1946-1949

1. THE ENVIRONMENT.
2. PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
3. FACILITIES.: Wind Tunnels and Other Con; Transonic Techniques; Wonderful Unitary Plan

4. RESEARCH.: Its Nature; Basic Configurations and Airflows; Inlets; Dynamic Stability and Loads; Flight Research; Aerodynamic Heating.

1950-1953
5. THE ENVIRONMENT.
6. PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
7. FAClLITlES.: Supersonic Wind Tunnels; Transonic Wind Tunnels; Unitary Plan Facility; Guns and Gun Tunnels; Use of Gases Other Than Air; Computing Facilities

8. RESEARCH.: Pattern; Basic Configurations and Airflows; Propellers and Inlets; Dynamic Stability and Loads; Flight Research; Boundary Layer, Skin Friction, and Aerodynamic Heating; Ballistic Missile Problem


1954-1957
9. THE ENVlRONMENT.

10. PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
11. FACILITIES.: Continuous-Flow Wind Tunnels; Guns and Ballistic Ranges; Atmosphere-Entry Simulator; Shock-Tunnel Applications; Simulation Problems; 3.5-Foot Tunnel; Arc-Jet; Computing Facilities

12. RESEARCH.: Pattern; Basic Configurations and Airflows; Propellers and Inlets; Dynamic Stability and Loads; Flight Research; Boundary Layer, Skin Friction, and Aerodynamic Heating; Ballistic and Boost-Glide Vehicles


1958

13. THE ENVlRONMENT.
14. PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
15. FACILITIES.: Ranges and Shock Tunnels; Heat or Helium; Aerophysics Facility; Computing Facilities.

16. RESEARCH.: Pattern; Basic Configurations and Airflows; Inlets; Stability; Flight Research; Boundary Layer, Skin Friction, and Aerodynamic Heating; Ballistic Missiles and Spacecraft

17. THE LEGACY FROM NACA.

Part III
THE LEAP TO SPACE: 1959 - 1965
1959-1962

1. THE ENVIRONMENT.: Space Act; Transfers; New Centers; NASA Organization and Growth; External Relations; Nature of NASA Research; Influence on Ames

2. PEOPLE AND EVENTS.: Early Changes; Later Developments; Formation of Life-Sciences Activity; Manpower Problems; Dissemination of Information

3. FACILITIES.: Completions; Hypervelocity Free-Flight Facilities; Impact Range; Gun Development; Ablation Research Requirements; Arc-Jet Development; Gasdynamics Laboratory; Flight Simulators; Digital Computer Facilities

4. RESEARCH.: Pattern; Aircraft Configurations and Airflows; Aircraft Flight Studies; V/STOL Studies; Pilot Adaptation to Flight Environment; Dynamic Loads and Materials; Spacecraft Configurations and Airflows; Spacecraft Flight Studies; Aerodynamic Heating: Physics and Chemistry; Impact Physics and Meteors; Space Physics

5. SPACE PROJECT MANAGEMENT.

1963-1965

6. THE ENVlRONMENT.

7. PEOPLE AND EVENTS.: Early Organizational Changes; Transfers and Organizational Repercussions; Other Late Developments; Manpower Shortage and Contracting

8. FACILITIES.: Service Facilities; Wind Tunnels and Wind-Tunnel Techniques; Guns, Ranges, and Arc Tunnels; Space Environmental Research Facility; Structural Dynamics Laboratory; Biological Research Facilities; Flight Simulators; Long-Path Gas Cell; Capital Growth

9. RESEARCH.: Pattern; Aircraft Design Studies; Dynamic Loads and Materials; Spacecraft Configurations and Airflows; Spacecraft Flight Studies; Mission Studies; Aerodynamic Heating, Ablation, and Radiation; Impact Physics and Meteors; Space and Planetary Physics; Biological Effects of Space Environment; Evolution and Detection of Extraterrestrial Life

10. PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND OTHER TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES.: Airborne Research Projects; Project Pioneer; Project Biosatellite; Technology Utilization

11. A CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP.

EPILOGUE.

Appendices and References

APPENDIX A - GROWTH OF AMES RESEARCH CENTER.
APPENDIX B - MAJOR HONORS AND AWARDS.
APPENDIX C - LIST OF REFERENCES (PRODUCT DISPLAY).
INDEX.