NACA photo, test pilots (from left) Mel Gough, Herb Hoover, Jack Reeder, Steve Cavallo and Bill Gray stand in front of a P-47 Thunderbolt.


1945 photo, test pilots (from left) Mel Gough, Herb Hoover, Jack Reeder, Steve Cavallo and Bill Gray stand in front of a P-47 Thunderbolt. The photo was taken at the then-named Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, which was a research facility for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or the NACA. The NACA was the main institutional basis for creating NASA in 1958.


Size: 3567px × 2566px
Photo credit: © NASA Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -47, 1945, airman, airmen, american, bill, cavallo, front, gough, gray, herb, historic, historical, history, hoover, jack, mel, men, naca, nasa, people, person, photo, pilot, pilots, plane, reeder, stand, steve, test, thunderbolt.