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The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, aka NACA, was formed on March 3, 1915, with a charter to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution." With luminaries like Orville Wright as members, the group was on the cutting edge of technology in the early decades of flight, before eventually being absorbed by NASA in 1958 ✈️ | NASA Aeronautics

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68K views · 1.8K reactions | The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle gives me the old school NACA “I wanna know what it feels like to fly so I built it from scraps” feeling! So many programs had unconventional and seemingly unsophisticated training measures, but they worked. I’ve always loved showing people how unglamorous it looked to learn to land on the Moon. #author #history #space #nasa #apollo #aviation | Amy Shira Teitel | Facebook