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STS102-368-019 - STS-102 - Empty orbiter payload bay as seen from U.S. Laboratory/Destiny window

STS102-368-019 - STS-102 - Empty orbiter payload bay as seen from U.S....

The original finding aid described this as: Description: View of the empty orbiter payload bay as seen from the U.S. Laboratory/Destiny module window. Subject Terms: STS-102, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), PAYLOAD BAY,... More

Bohn-Meyer Math and Science Odyssey

Bohn-Meyer Math and Science Odyssey

Read Feature Paul Jones, senior research chemist at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base and Krista Esse, a student at Lancaster«És Amargosa Creek Middle School, get some hands-on experim... More

Pearl I. Young, NASA history collection

Pearl I. Young, NASA history collection

Description (March 29, 1929) Pearl I. Young, the NACA's first female professional, at work in the instrument research laboratory circa 1929. Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publi... More

Portrait of Melvin N. Gough. NASA public domain image colelction.

Portrait of Melvin N. Gough. NASA public domain image colelction.

Melvin N. Gough started his NACA career in the Propeller Research Tunnel. After taking flight training and becoming a reserve navy pilot in the late 1920s he transferred from the PRT to the flight test section.... More

Dr. Robert Goddard at Clark University

Dr. Robert Goddard at Clark University

Full Description: Dr. Robert H. Goddard at a blackboard at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1924. Goddard began teaching physics in 1914 at Clark and in 1923 was named the Director of the Physic... More

Joseph Ames, NASA history collection

Joseph Ames, NASA history collection

Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames at his desk at the NACA headquarters. Dr. Ames was a founding member of NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915. Ames took on N... More

Model of the NACA's Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory during its Construction

Model of the NACA's Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory during its Con...

Zella Morewitz poses with a model of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, currently the NASA Glenn Research Center. The model was displayed in the Administ... More

George Lewis Addresses Staff during the Construction of the New Laboratory

George Lewis Addresses Staff during the Construction of the New Labora...

Construction Manager Raymond Sharp and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Director of Research George Lewis speak to employees during the May 8, 1942, Initiation of Research ceremony at the ... More

General Henry Arnold Visits the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

General Henry Arnold Visits the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

General Henry “Hap” Arnold, Commander of the US Army Air Forces during World War II, addresses the staff at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory on November... More

Lockheed P–38J Lightning at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Lockheed P–38J Lightning at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory acquired two Lockheed P–38J Lightning in October 1944 to augment their burgeoning icing research program. The P–38 was ... More

Cessna UC–78 Bobcat at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Cessna UC–78 Bobcat at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

The Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory acquired the five-seat Cessna UC–78 in March 1943 to maintain the proficiency of its pilots. The UC–78 was referred to as the “Bamboo Bomber” because of its wooden wings ... More

Aircraft in the Flight Research Building at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Aircraft in the Flight Research Building at the Aircraft Engine Resear...

A Consolidated B–24D Liberator (left), Boeing B–29 Superfortress (background), and Lockheed RA–29 Hudson (foreground) parked inside the Flight Research Building at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautic... More

Date: Nov 9, 1940 Aerial view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory showing Flight Research Lab and Construction of 16ft wind tunnel ARC-1969-M-921

Date: Nov 9, 1940 Aerial view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory showing ...

Date: Nov 9, 1940 Aerial view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory showing Flight Research Lab and Construction of 16ft wind tunnel

Some NACA Muroc personnel with snowman

Some NACA Muroc personnel with snowman

The late 1940s saw increased flight activity, and more women computers were needed at the NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit than the ones who had originally arrived in 1946. A call went out to the NACA Langley, Lewis... More

Instrumentation in B-29, NASA history collection

Instrumentation in B-29, NASA history collection

Description (May 1, 1944) Recording high altitude flight data in a flying laboratory at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, Ohio, now known as ... More

Arriving Engineers were John Parsons and Ferril Nickle (January 29, 1940) They were the first permanent members of the laboratory's staff on site. Other early arrivals from Langley were: Carlton Bioletti, March 1; Arthur B. Freeman, March 2; Edward R. Sharp, March 11; Manie G Poole, March 11; H. Julian Allen, April 13; Geroge E. Bulifant, April 17; Howard W. Krischbaum, April 29; and John P. Houston, April 29. Russ Robinson on-site representative of the construction group and their  support staff E York, R Pippen. ARC-1940-M-368

Arriving Engineers were John Parsons and Ferril Nickle (January 29, 19...

Arriving Engineers were John Parsons and Ferril Nickle (January 29, 1940) They were the first permanent members of the laboratory's staff on site. Other early arrivals from Langley were: Carlton Bioletti, March... More

Instrumentation in A-29, NASA history collection

Instrumentation in A-29, NASA history collection

(March 11, 1944) Recording high altitude flight data in a flying laboratory at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, Ohio, now known as the John ... More

Army Air Photo - General view looking west at Ames Aeronautical Laboratory construction progress ARC-1940-0-6

Army Air Photo - General view looking west at Ames Aeronautical Labora...

Army Air Photo - General view looking west at Ames Aeronautical Laboratory construction progress

Flight Research Building at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Flight Research Building at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

The Flight Research Building at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory is a 272- by 150-foot hangar with an internal height up to 90 feet. The hangar’s massiv... More

NACA Mechanics in an Allison Engine Training Class

NACA Mechanics in an Allison Engine Training Class

The Allison Engine Company's A.G. Covell instructs mechanics from various divisions at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory on the operation of the Allison ... More

Fuels and Lubes Research Operations

Fuels and Lubes Research Operations

Description (August 19, 1943) Staff testing chemical properties of fuels and lubricants at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in Cleveland Ohio, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field...... More

Draftsmen at Work during Construction of the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Draftsmen at Work during Construction of the Aircraft Engine Research ...

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory was designed by a group of engineers at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in late 1940 and 1941. Under the g... More

Steam Plant at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Steam Plant at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

The Steam Plant at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory supplies steam to the major test facilities and office buildings. Steam is used for the Icing Resear... More

Some NACA Muroc personnel with snowman

Some NACA Muroc personnel with snowman

The late 1940s saw increased flight activity, and more women computers were needed at the NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit than the ones who had originally arrived in 1946. A call went out to the NACA Langley, Lewis... More

Martin B–26 Marauder at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Martin B–26 Marauder at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

The Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory’s first aircraft, a Martin B–26B Marauder, parked in front of the Flight Research Building in September 1943. The military loaned the B–26B to the National Advisory Commi... More

Boeing B–29 Superfortress at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Boeing B–29 Superfortress at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

A Boeing B–29 Superfortress at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio. The B–29 was the Army Air Forces’ deadliest weapon during the latter... More

Army Air Photo Ames Aeronautical Laboratory construction progress showing two (2) 7x10ft wind tunnels, the 16ft wind tunnel, Technical and Electrical Services Buildings and the construction shack. (Ref: 0-34) ARC-1941-AAL-1324

Army Air Photo Ames Aeronautical Laboratory construction progress show...

Army Air Photo Ames Aeronautical Laboratory construction progress showing two (2) 7x10ft wind tunnels, the 16ft wind tunnel, Technical and Electrical Services Buildings and the construction shack. (Ref: 0-34)

Engine on Torque Stand, NASA history collection

Engine on Torque Stand, NASA history collection

Description (April 15, 1944) Engine on Torque Stand at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio, now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. Torque is the twisting motion pr... More

Bell P–63A King Cobra at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Bell P–63A King Cobra at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

The Army Air Forces lent the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory a Bell P–63A King Cobra in October 1943 to complement the lab's extensive efforts to improve t... More

NACA Flight Engineer in a Lockheed RA–29 Hudson

NACA Flight Engineer in a Lockheed RA–29 Hudson

A flight engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory monitors test equipment in the rear of the Lockheed RA–29 Hudson. Lockheed manufactured several va... More

Groundbreaking for the NACA’s Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Groundbreaking for the NACA’s Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Local politicians and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) officials were on hand for the January 23, 1941 groundbreaking for the NACA’s Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory (AERL). The NACA was e... More

Engineer Measures Ice Formation on an Instrument Antenna Model

Engineer Measures Ice Formation on an Instrument Antenna Model

A National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) researcher measures the ice thickness on a landing antenna model in the Icing Research Tunnel at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory. NACA design enginee... More

Ames Aeronautical Research Laboratory aerial shows original flight research hangar in foreground,  the two 7x10ft w.t. the 16ft w.t. and Admin buildings   NOTE: printed in  NASA Ames Publications: Adventures in Research - SP-4320; Searching the Horizon - SP 4304; 57 Years - Flight Research at AMES - NASA SP-1998-3300 ARC-1941-AAL-1449

Ames Aeronautical Research Laboratory aerial shows original flight res...

Ames Aeronautical Research Laboratory aerial shows original flight research hangar in foreground, the two 7x10ft w.t. the 16ft w.t. and Admin buildings NOTE: printed in NASA Ames Publications: Adventures in... More

NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory aerial; 16ft, 7X10ft#1, 7x10ft#2 wind tunnels, Technical Services Bldg N-220, Utilities later Electrical Services Bldg N-219 and construction on the Science Laboratory, later Engineering Services Bldg N-203 ARC-1941-AAL-1731

NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory aerial; 16ft, 7X10ft#1, 7x10ft#2 win...

NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory aerial; 16ft, 7X10ft#1, 7x10ft#2 wind tunnels, Technical Services Bldg N-220, Utilities later Electrical Services Bldg N-219 and construction on the Science Laboratory, later E... More

Construction of the Hangar at the New Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Construction of the Hangar at the New Aircraft Engine Research Laborat...

Northward view of the Flight Research Building's steel framework in August 1941 as it neared completion at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory. The 272- by... More

NACA photographer Ice Reearch being conducted at NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory on a Lockheed 12-A,  NACA 97; test #4, ice on tell-tale strut in flight ARC-1941-AAL-1697

NACA photographer Ice Reearch being conducted at NACA Ames Aeronautica...

NACA photographer Ice Reearch being conducted at NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory on a Lockheed 12-A, NACA 97; test #4, ice on tell-tale strut in flight

Ames Aernautical Laboratory aerial; 7x10's and 16ft wind tunnels, N-219, N-220 and construction shack ARC-1941-0-34

Ames Aernautical Laboratory aerial; 7x10's and 16ft wind tunnels, N-21...

Ames Aernautical Laboratory aerial; 7x10's and 16ft wind tunnels, N-219, N-220 and construction shack

Initiation of Research at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Initiation of Research at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

A group of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) officials and local dignitaries were on hand on May 8, 1942, to witness the Initiation of Research at the NACA's new Aircraft Engine Research Labora... More

Early aerial of the NASA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory ARC-1943-AAL-4083

Early aerial of the NASA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory ARC-1943-AAL-408...

Early aerial of the NASA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft development, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (with blimps in flight over Moffett runway) ARC-1943-AAL-4799

Aerial view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (with blimps in flight ove...

Aerial view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (with blimps in flight over Moffett runway)

Ames aerial view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory plot looking northeast with blimp in flight over Moffett Naval airstation. ARC-1943-AAL-4802

Ames aerial view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory plot looking northeas...

Ames aerial view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory plot looking northeast with blimp in flight over Moffett Naval airstation.

Ames Aeronautical Laboratory skyline from Akron Road ARC-1943-AAL-3936

Ames Aeronautical Laboratory skyline from Akron Road ARC-1943-AAL-3936

Ames Aeronautical Laboratory skyline from Akron Road

Memphis Belle and Crew Visit the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Memphis Belle and Crew Visit the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Captain Robert Morgan and the rest of the Memphis Belle crew arrive in Cleveland on a rainy July 7, 1943, for three-day publicity visit. This B–17 Flying Fortress had recently become the first U.S. bomber to co... More

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLE...

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1944-5384

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLE...

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1944-5380

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLE...

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1944-5392

General view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory taken from Naval airship hangar. Shows construction of the 12ft Pressure Wind Tunnel with large cranes. ARC-1944-A-6172

General view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory taken from Naval airship ...

General view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory taken from Naval airship hangar. Shows construction of the 12ft Pressure Wind Tunnel with large cranes.

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLE...

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1944-5387

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLE...

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1944-5388

Ames Aeronautica Laboratory Dedication ceremonies; Dr. Lewis and Smity DeFrance, Director, Ames Research Center standing in front of shock-wave picture. ARC-1944-AAL-6046

Ames Aeronautica Laboratory Dedication ceremonies; Dr. Lewis and Smity...

Ames Aeronautica Laboratory Dedication ceremonies; Dr. Lewis and Smity DeFrance, Director, Ames Research Center standing in front of shock-wave picture.

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLE...

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1944-5393

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLE...

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1944-5389

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLE...

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1944-5391

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLE...

WOMEN WORKING AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL) IN CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1944-5383

Supercharger Research at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Supercharger Research at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

A researcher in the Supercharger Research Division at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory measures the blade thickness on a supercharger. Superchargers wer... More

Guard House at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Guard House at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

A vehicle leaves the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory on August 14, 1945. At 7 p.m. that evening President Truman announced that Japan had accepted terms fo... More

Air Force Officers Visit Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Air Force Officers Visit Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

A group of 60 Army Air Forces officers visited the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory on August 27, 1945. The laboratory enacted strict security regulations t... More

Aerial view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field California. ARC-1945-A-8479

Aerial view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field California....

Aerial view of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field California.

NACA Pilots at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

NACA Pilots at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

The Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory’s pilot corps during the final days of World War II: from left to right, Joseph Vensel, Howard Lilly, William Swann, and Joseph Walker. William “Eb” Gough joined the grou... More

Wind Tunnel Complex at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

Wind Tunnel Complex at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory

This aerial photograph shows the entire original wind tunnel complex at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory. The large Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) at the ce... More

Rockets or JATO Jet Assisted Take Off Units

Rockets or JATO Jet Assisted Take Off Units

Rockets or JATO Jet Assisted Take Off Units at the High Pressure Combustion Facility. Such engines were often used during the 1940s-1960s to boost heavily-laden aircraft off the ground.

1946, NASA history collection, Glenn Research Center

1946, NASA history collection, Glenn Research Center

AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY AERL TURBO JET COMBUSTOR MODEL SETUP NASA Identifier: C-1946-15610

1946, NASA history collection, Glenn Research Center

1946, NASA history collection, Glenn Research Center

NACA DISPLAYS AT THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY AERL - MR GERRISH AND HIS FUEL TO AIR RATIO METER NASA Identifier: C-1946-14734

German Jumo 004 Engine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

German Jumo 004 Engine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

Researcher Robert Miller led an investigation into the combustor performance of a German Jumo 004 engine at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The Jumo 00... More

Aircraft Fleet on the Tarmac at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

Aircraft Fleet on the Tarmac at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

This fleet of military aircraft was used in the 1940s for research at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio. The NACA Lewis flight research... More

General Dwight Eisenhower Visits the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

General Dwight Eisenhower Visits the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laborator...

General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the staff of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory during an April 11, 1946 visit to Cleveland. The former supreme command... More

Aerial View of NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory

Aerial View of NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio as seen from the west in May 1946. The Cleveland Municipal Airport is located directly behind. The la... More

Fabrication Division Staff in the Machine Shop

Fabrication Division Staff in the Machine Shop

Machine Shop technicians in the Technical Service Building at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The 260-person Fabrication Division, led by Dan White and... More

General Electric I-40 Engine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

General Electric I-40 Engine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

A mechanic works on a General Electric I-40 turbojet at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The military selected General Electric’s West Lynn facility in ... More

FIRST ANNUAL INSPECTION OF CLEVELAND AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY AERL BY ARMY AND NAVY AND INDUSTRY

FIRST ANNUAL INSPECTION OF CLEVELAND AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATO...

FIRST ANNUAL INSPECTION OF CLEVELAND AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY AERL BY ARMY AND NAVY AND INDUSTRY NASA Identifier: C-1947-19767

Bell P-59B Airacomet at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

Bell P-59B Airacomet at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

A Bell P-59B Airacomet sits beside the hangar at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. In 1942 the Bell XP-59A Airacomet became the first jet aircraft in the... More

Boeing B-29 Superfortress at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

Boeing B-29 Superfortress at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

The NACA’s Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory used a Boeing B-29 Superfortress as a testbed for ramjet investigations in the late 1940s. NACA Lewis conducted a wide variety of studies on ramjets to determine ba... More

Rocket Research Presentation at the NACA's 1947 Inspection

Rocket Research Presentation at the NACA's 1947 Inspection

Researcher John Sloop briefs visitors on his latest rocket engine research during the 1947 Inspection at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The NACA had b... More

PLAQUE MADE IN MEMORIUM TO DR GEORGE W LEWIS OF THE LEWIS FLIGHT PROPULSION LABORATORY OF CLEVELAND OHIO

PLAQUE MADE IN MEMORIUM TO DR GEORGE W LEWIS OF THE LEWIS FLIGHT PROPU...

PLAQUE MADE IN MEMORIUM TO DR GEORGE W LEWIS OF THE LEWIS FLIGHT PROPULSION LABORATORY OF CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1948-22248

STARTING TEST OF J-33 JET ENGINE WITH TAIL CONE REMOVED TO STUDY FLAME PROPAGATION OF IGNITION AT THE LEWIS FLIGHT PROPULSION LABORATORY LFPL OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS NACA CLEVELAND OHIO

STARTING TEST OF J-33 JET ENGINE WITH TAIL CONE REMOVED TO STUDY FLAME...

STARTING TEST OF J-33 JET ENGINE WITH TAIL CONE REMOVED TO STUDY FLAME PROPAGATION OF IGNITION AT THE LEWIS FLIGHT PROPULSION LABORATORY LFPL OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS NACA CLEVELAND OH... More

Icing on J-34 Engine. NASA public domain image colelction.

Icing on J-34 Engine. NASA public domain image colelction.

(November 30, 1948) Icing on J-34 engine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland Ohio. The J-34 engine was built by the Westinghouse Corporation and was used on such aircraft as the Lockheed C11-12... More

Heat Treat Shop in the Technical Services Building

Heat Treat Shop in the Technical Services Building

A technician prepares a metal component for a high-temperature bake in the Heat Treatment Shop at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. Fabrication Division... More

Entrance to the NACA's Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory

Entrance to the NACA's Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory

The sign near the entrance of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory. The name was changed several weeks later to the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in ... More

NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) sign at entrance to Ames Laboratory ARC-1948-A-13425

NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) sign at entrance to...

NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) sign at entrance to Ames Laboratory

NACA Ames Laboratory Building, South West.

NACA Ames Laboratory Building, South West.

NACA Ames 40x80 foot wind tunnel (South West). Don Richey

NACA Muroc Employees With a Snowman

NACA Muroc Employees With a Snowman

Description (November 15, 1949) The late 1940s saw increased flight activity, and more women computers were needed at the NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit than the ones who had originally arrived in 1946. A call wen... More

NACA Engineers Calibrate the 2- by 2-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel

NACA Engineers Calibrate the 2- by 2-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel

Engineers calibrate one of three small supersonic wind tunnels that were collectively referred to as the “Stack Tunnels” at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laborat... More

Theodore von Karman, NASA history collection

Theodore von Karman, NASA history collection

Full Description: (c. 1950)Dr. Theodore von Karman, co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Pasadena, California was an aeronautical theoretician. He was the first winner of the prestigious U.S. Medal... More

NACA Technician Cleans a Ramjet in 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel

NACA Technician Cleans a Ramjet in 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel

A technician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory cleans the pitot tube on a 16-inch diameter ramjet in the 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel. Pitot tub... More

Highest Honors for Game-Changing Innovation

Highest Honors for Game-Changing Innovation

In 1951, the Collier Trophy was awarded again to John Stack and associates at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory for the development and use of the slotted-throat wind tunnel. Stack, head of Compressi... More

Construction of the Propulsion Systems Laboratory No. 1 and 2

Construction of the Propulsion Systems Laboratory No. 1 and 2

Construction of the Propulsion Systems Laboratory No. 1 and 2 at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. When it began operation in late 1952, the Propulsion S... More

Arrival of Equipment for the New Propulsion Systems Laboratory

Arrival of Equipment for the New Propulsion Systems Laboratory

A caravan of large steel castings arrived at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in January 1951. These pieces would serve as the two 14-foot diameter test ... More

NACA Computer at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

NACA Computer at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

A female computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory with a slide rule and Friden adding machine to make computations. The computer staff was introduced... More

Duke of Windsor Visits the Lewis Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory

Duke of Windsor Visits the Lewis Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory

Edward Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Duke of Windsor, visits the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio. He is seen in this photograph shaking hands wi... More

Harry Mergler with His Modified Differential Analyzer

Harry Mergler with His Modified Differential Analyzer

Harry Mergler stands at the control board of a differential analyzer in the new Instrument Research Laboratory at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The d... More

Dr. Igor Sikorsky Visits the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

Dr. Igor Sikorsky Visits the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory

Dr. Igor Sikorsky, fourth from the left, visits the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio. The legendary Russian-born aviation pioneer visited ... More

Mrs. George Lewis and Family Visit the Laboratory

Mrs. George Lewis and Family Visit the Laboratory

Myrtle Lewis and three of her sons visit the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio. The Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory was renamed in Le... More

VARIOUS ROCKET INSTALLATIONS AT THE ROCKET LABORATORY

VARIOUS ROCKET INSTALLATIONS AT THE ROCKET LABORATORY

VARIOUS ROCKET INSTALLATIONS AT THE ROCKET LABORATORY NASA Identifier: C-1952-29043

VARIOUS ROCKET INSTALLATIONS AT THE ROCKET LABORATORY

VARIOUS ROCKET INSTALLATIONS AT THE ROCKET LABORATORY

VARIOUS ROCKET INSTALLATIONS AT THE ROCKET LABORATORY NASA Identifier: C-1952-29047

EXPLOSION DAMAGE IN CELL 24 ALTITUDE TANK OR THE ROCKET LABORATORY - RUN 156

EXPLOSION DAMAGE IN CELL 24 ALTITUDE TANK OR THE ROCKET LABORATORY - R...

EXPLOSION DAMAGE IN CELL 24 ALTITUDE TANK OR THE ROCKET LABORATORY - RUN 156 NASA Identifier: C-1952-30546

EXPLOSION DAMAGE IN CELL 24 ALTITUDE TANK OR THE ROCKET LABORATORY - RUN 156

EXPLOSION DAMAGE IN CELL 24 ALTITUDE TANK OR THE ROCKET LABORATORY - R...

EXPLOSION DAMAGE IN CELL 24 ALTITUDE TANK OR THE ROCKET LABORATORY - RUN 156 NASA Identifier: C-1952-30544

TELEVISION CAMERA AND MONITOR TO VIEW ROCKET IGNITION IN ALTITUDE TANK IN THE ROCKET LABORATORY

TELEVISION CAMERA AND MONITOR TO VIEW ROCKET IGNITION IN ALTITUDE TANK...

TELEVISION CAMERA AND MONITOR TO VIEW ROCKET IGNITION IN ALTITUDE TANK IN THE ROCKET LABORATORY NASA Identifier: C-1952-31648

Primary Exhaust Cooler at the Propulsion Systems Laboratory

Primary Exhaust Cooler at the Propulsion Systems Laboratory

One of the two primary coolers at the Propulsion Systems Laboratory at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. Engines could be run in simulated altitude condi... More

Wright XRJ47-W-5 Ramjet in the New Propulsion Systems Laboratory

Wright XRJ47-W-5 Ramjet in the New Propulsion Systems Laboratory

A Wright Aeronautical XRJ47-W-5 ramjet installed in a test chamber of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (NACA) new Propulsion Systems Laboratory at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. Constru... More

Bill Kerslake Preparing a Test in the Rocket Laboratory

Bill Kerslake Preparing a Test in the Rocket Laboratory

William Kerslake, a combustion researcher at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, examines the setup of a transparent rocket in a Rocket Laboratory test cel... More

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