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" Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution... "
Departmental and Agency Statements on Research and Development Administration - Page 236
by United States. President's Scientific Research Board - 1948 - 248 pages
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Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ..., Volume 2

Alex Roland - 1985 - 432 pages
...is research information. It being the duty of the Committee to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution," the encouragement of the commercial development of aeronautics is necessary, since through this commercial...
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1986 NASA Authorization: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation, and Materials - 1985 - 192 pages
...modern-day legislation. It directed NACA, the advisory council, to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution." With that charter, and only modest resources over the years, NACA and its successor agency, NASA, have...
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Research Funding as an Investment: Hearings Before the Task Force ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Task Force on Science Policy - Endowment of research - 1986 - 526 pages
...government. Commonly known as the NACA, the agency had as its mandate "to supervise the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution." One of the major reasons for its creation had been recognition by leading scientific and engineering...
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Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990

Roger E. Bilstein - Electronic government information - 1989 - 194 pages
...must be remembered that this was an advisory committee only, "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solutions." Once the NACA isolated a problem, its study and solution was generally done by a government...
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Seventy-five Years of Excellence

Government publications - 1990 - 28 pages
...ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1915 "...TO SUPERVISE AND DIRECT THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE PROBLEMS OF FLIGHT, WITH A VIEW TO THEIR PRACTICAL SOLUTION...." CREATED TO HELP ENSURE US PREEMINENCE IN AVIATION, NACA SUBSEQUENTLY BECAME THE NUCLEUS OF THE NATIONAL...
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1991 NASA Authorization: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ..., Part 1

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation, and Materials - United States - 1990 - 90 pages
...Advisory Committee on Aeronautics and instructing the committee to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution." With those simple but yet visionary words, the Congress and the Administration set in motion a process...
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Erfindergeist und Technikkritik: der Beitrag Amerikas zur Modernisierung und ...

Andreas Schüler - History - 1990 - 310 pages
...Tätigkeit war ehrenamtlich und ihre Aufgabe bestand darin "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution" sowie "to direct and conduct research and experiments in aeronautics." Erst 1920 erhielt NACA eigene...
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Fiftieth Anniversary: Lewis Research Center

1991 - 32 pages
...the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) "... to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution." For its first five years in operation, the unpaid 12-member committee had an annual budget of $5000....
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Engines and Innovation: Lewis Laboratory and American Propulsion ..., Volume 10

Virginia Parker Dawson - Electronic government information - 1991 - 300 pages
...relationship with the aircraft industry. It was charged with the supervision and direction of "the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution."3 The Advisory Committee, which directed the NACA's research program, consisted of 12 prominent...
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The NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program: Prologue to the Future

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Government publications - 1992 - 56 pages
...NACA, NASA's parent organization. The committee was charged "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution." Not surprisingly, in a wartime environment the NACA was busy from the outset. Its first published technical...
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