 Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution, and to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to...  The Military Laws of the United States, 1915 - Էջ 447United States - 1917 - 1076 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1990 - 28 էջ
...WITH A BUDGET OF ONLY $5,000, THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1915 "...TO SUPERVISE AND DIRECT THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY 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... | |
 | Virginia Parker Dawson - 1991 - 300 էջ
...Dryden knew that, without highly trained staff, it would be difficult to continue the NACA's commitment "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight with a view to their practical solution." Missile development, the atom bomb, and radar had created a new generation of scientists. It had brought... | |
 | 1991 - 32 էջ
...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.... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - 1992 - 56 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 of the...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 էջ
...• 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 - 1995 - 588 էջ
...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 - 1995 - 852 էջ
...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,... | |
 | Lane E. Wallace - 1996 - 230 էջ
...the country's knowledge and understanding of aeronautics. Established in l9l5, the NACA's mission was to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the...problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution."5 The committee was to help the fledgling aeronautics industry by conducting research that... | |
 | John David Anderson - 1998 - 498 էջ
...as the publisher of the Caldwell and Fales data, carrying out its duty as stated in Public Law 271 "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...solution and their application to practical questions." The NACA was earmarking compressibility effects as a problem "which should be experimentally attacked."... | |
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