 | Andreas Schüler - History - 1990 - 310 pages
...wurden direkt vom Präsidenten berufen; ihre Tätigkeit war ehrenamtlich und ihre Aufgabe bestand darin "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a vie w to their practical solution" sowie "to direct and conduct research and experiments in aeronautics."... | |
 | 1991 - 32 pages
...joint resolution of Congress established the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) "... to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Government publications - 1992 - 56 pages
...Advisory Committee for Aeronautics or the NACA, NASA's parent organization. The committee was charged "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...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... | |
 | 1993 - 250 pages
...backed by the powerful Naval Affairs Committee and tied to a navy appropriation bill. NACA's charge was to "supervise and direct the scientific study...determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked."3 By the 1920s, NACA was an important contributor to R&D for the fledgling commercial industry.... | |
 | 1994 - 142 pages
...• Improve the usefulness, performance, speed, safety, and efficiency of aeronautical vehicles. • Supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems...of flight, with a view to their practical solution. • Ensure the timely provision of a proven technology base for a safe, efficient, environmentally... | |
 | James R. Hansen - Astronautics - 1995 - 588 pages
...real federal agency." NASA did not enjoy a long-term goal like the former NACA — an agency designed "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight with a view to their practical solution," or even like the FAA, whose job was to make air travel effective and safe. "NASA was just a project... | |
 | Anne Cipriano Venzon - History - 1995 - 852 pages
...Aeronautics consisting of twelve nonpaid members drawn from government and the scientific community to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight with a view to their practical solution." Congress appropriated the modest sum of $5,000 to support the committee's work for 1916-1917. In April,... | |
 | Steve Pace - Airplanes - 100 pages
...NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) in March 1915: For the supervision and direction of scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution; and to direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics. After World War I, NACA built its Langley... | |
 | Lane E. Wallace - Aeronautics - 1996 - 230 pages
...expand the country's knowledge and understanding of aeronautics. Established in l9l5, the NACA's mission was to "supervise and direct the scientific study...problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution."5 The committee was to help the fledgling aeronautics industry by conducting research that... | |
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