...sciences." All the members, as s*uch, serve without compensation. The law provides that the Committee shall "supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight, with a view to their practical solution * * V' and also "direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics." Under the rules and regulations...

...Advisory Committee for Aeronautics states or provides that the committee shall—- supervise and direct a scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution; and also direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics. It seems to me that would give them...

...Committee for Aeronautics. Our organization is charged by law with the supervision and direction of the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution. The NACA operates three major research stations, one at the Army's Langley Field, Va., one at the Navy's...

...the approval of the President, for the conduct of its work, it shall be the duty of the Committee (1) to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight with a view to their practical solution, (2) to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution...

...functions with respect to problems of flight. The committee was established by act of Congress in 1915 to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight with a view to their practical solution. In fulfilling this responsibility the committee has conducted fundamental research at its three laboratories,...

...as a rider to the Naval Appropriation Act, signed March 3, 1915. The responsibility of the new NACA was to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practice! solution. ..." The act also provided for the construction of aeronautical research facilities,...

...to re-establish the US pre-eminence in aeronautical research. The stated responsibility of the NACA was to "supervise and direct the scientific study...of flight with a view to their practical solution". The Congress provided funds for the construction of a laboratory at Hampton, Virginia, and from 1915...

...National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NAC A).1 Chartered by Congress in 1915, NACA was authorized to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight with a view to their practical solution ... to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution...

...that committee. In that bill the Congress ordered that "it shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...problems of flight, with a view to their practical and the solution and to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked and to discuss...

...backwardness of American aviation. For 43 years the NACA excelled in carrying out its chartered mandate ". . . to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view of their practical solution." The Committee first surveyed the current stage of development of aircraft...