National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), established by US Congress (3 March 1915) to promote aeronautical research. It was dissolved in 19

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National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), established by US Congress (3 March 1915) to promote aeronautical research. It was dissolved in 1958 and replaced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Left to right: Clinton Monroe Hester, Samuel M. Kraus, A. Warner Robins, Lyman James Briggs, Edward Pearson Warner, Orville Wright, Joseph Sweetman Ames, Charles Greely Abbot, John F. Victory, Arthur Byron Cook, an unidentified committee member, Vannevar Bush, Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, George William Lewis. Photographed in Langley Field, Virginia, USA, in 1938.

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