NACA Langely Administrative Office, NASA history collection
Description: (1927) Langley administrative office in. Note the blueprints on the table at right lower corner, and rubber stamp tree on the man's desk in left foreground...Image # : L-02204
Amelia Earhart Visits NACA (And Gets Her Coat Caught in a Wind Tunnel!...
Description (November 5, 1928) Group photo on steps of Langley Research Building in 1928. front row, left to right: E.A. Meyers, Elton Miller, Amelia Earhart, Henry Reid, and Lt. Col. Jacob W.S. Wuest. Back row... More
NACA Employees Looking Sharp For a Staff Photo at Ames
Description (April 29, 1940) 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 ... More
Flying Boat Construction, NASA history collection
(April 24, 1946) Technicians at Langley installing flaps and wiring on a flying-boat model, circa 1944...Image # : L-46826
Human Computers of 1947, NASA history collection
Description (1947) Langley's human computers at work. The female staff at Langley performed mathematical computations for male staff. Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publication (... More
NACA Muroc Contingent with X-1-2 Aircraft
Description (October 1947) The NACA Muroc Contingent in October 1947 in front of the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 and Boeing B-29 launch aircraft. Standing left to right: Le Roy Proctor, Jr., Don Borchers, H... More
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
Early NACA Human Computers at Work
Description (November 1949) The women of the Computer Department at NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station are shown busy with test flight calculations. The "computers" under the direction of Roxanah Yancey we... More
Manometer Board Setup in Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Description (February 24, 1949) Manometer Board Setup in the 18 x 18 inch Supersonic Wind Tunnel at Lewis...Image # : C-1949-23011
NACA High Speed Flight Station "Computer" Room
Description (1949) Early "computers" at work, summer 1949. In the terminology of that period, computers were employees--typically female--who performed the arduous task of transcribing raw data from roles of ce... More
Differential Analyzer NASA history collection
Description (June 5, 1951) Differential Analyzer built under Mergler in Instrument Research. The technician is preparing a data report. This equipment is located at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, LFPL,... More
Kitty Joyner - Electrical Engineer NASA history collection
Description (April 7, 1952) Kitty Joyner, electrical engineer, at Langley in 1952...Image # : L-74800
A Female Employee Doing Very Important NACA Things
Description (March 24, 1952) Publicity photo from Muroc California, showing female support personnel with equipment...Image # : L-74768
NASA Langley Research Center NACA Reunion XII
Description (May 2008) The 12th and Final NACA Reunion took place at the NASA Langley Research Center, which was established as the first NACA facility in 1917 as the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. N... More