Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1915-1958, Volume 1Scientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1985 - 794 pages |
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Page 18 - ... the Advisory Committee for 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 practical questions.
Page 18 - The purpose of the committee was "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 practical questions.
Page 101 - Discovery and invention do not spring full-grown from the brains of men. The labor of a host of men, great laboratories, long, patient, scientific experiment build up the structure of knowledge, not stone by stone, but particle by particle. This adding of fact to fact some day brings forth a revolutionary discovery, an illuminating hypothesis, a great generalization or a practical invention.
Page 18 - Standards; together with not more than five additional persons who shall be acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science, either civil or military, or skilled in aeronautical engineering or its allied sciences...
Page 384 - The National Space Program, Phase I: Passage of the 'National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958,'" MA thesis, American University, 1960.
Page 334 - ... General Purposes" never decreased during these years. Lewis nominally took over the budget duties from Victory, who had been performing them unofficially from the outset, officially since July 1918. Minutes, Executive Committee meeting, 30 July 1918. 14. See pp. 265-266 and appendix C, esp. table Cl . In these early years the NACA budget usually passed with ease. For example, Lewis wrote to Redmond D. Stephens on 16 Apr. 1924: "Our hearings before the House Appropriations Committee were most...
Page 381 - ... 39. Clarence C. (Kelly) Johnson, for one, was skeptical of the claims made for Whitcomb's work, but the Air Force was genuinely grateful for the help with the F-102, and praise for the NACA and Whitcomb was widespread. See Johnson to Dryden, 12 Aug. 1957, and Dryden to Johnson, 20 Aug. 1957, in 65 A 953 (36), A-34, 1957. 40. Hoover signed the report of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, Research and Development in the Government...
Page 385 - It seems clear to us that these discussions have degenerated into a bureaucratic struggle for survival as a "space" agency on the part of ARPA. The [Defense] Secretary's main problem seems to be to get a settlement that will keep ARPA happy. The position Dr. York keeps taking makes it unlikely that ARPA will be satisfied unless they get everything they wanted in the first place. 39. Robert Rosholt, An Administrative History of NASA, 1958-1963 (NASA SP-4101; Washington, 1966), pp. 37-48. 40. See Alex...
Page 325 - ... almost entirely on Quinlan, "World War I Aeronautical Research." 53. Ibid., p. 23. 54. AR 1917, pp. 31-32. 55. AR 1917, p. 12; AR 1918, p. 10. The 1917 amendment had other provisions as well; see app. A for the full text. 56. Minutes of Executive Committee meetings 10 Jan. 1918, 23 Feb. 1918, and 8 Aug. 1918; AR 1918. pp. 24-25. The main source of information at this time was the Research Information Committee of the National Research Council. The chairman of that committee was also a member...
Page 110 - Collier trophy, the prestigious award presented annually "for the greatest achievement in aviation in America, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by use during the preceding year.