 | United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Space and Astronautics - 1958 - 980 pages
...Corsair, Wildcat, and Hellcat — are possible only because they were based on fundamentals developed by NACA. All of them use NACA wing sections, NACA cooling...Japan's expanding grip in the Pacific would not have have been possible without the contributions of NACA." At war's end, when United States intelligence... | |
 | Frank Walter Anderson - 1976 - 148 pages
...based on fundamentals developed by the NACA," Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox volunteered in 1943. "All of them use NACA wing sections, NACA cooling...been possible without the contributions of the NACA." NEW HORIZONS To the scientific community, the most exciting legacy of World War II was a glittering... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics - 1964 - 382 pages
...defensive strength in space. He said at that time : New ideas are weapons of immense significance. The US Navy was the first to develop aircraft capable of...decision to employ Gemini technology in the Air Force MOL project. But this is merely the forerunner of similar applications not only in manned operations, but... | |
 | 1964 - 248 pages
...because they were based on such fundamentals developed by NACA as wing sections, cooling methods, and high-lift devices. "The great sea victories that have broken Japan's expanding grip in the Pacific," Secretary Knox said, "would not have been possible without the contributions of the NACA." Last December,... | |
 | Frank Walter Anderson - 1976 - 122 pages
...based on fundamentals developed by the NACA," Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox volunteered in 1943. "All of them use NACA wing sections, NACA cooling...been possible without the contributions of the NACA." NEW HORIZONS To the scientific community, the most exciting legacy of World War II was a glittering... | |
 | David A. Anderton - 1978 - 88 pages
...Navy's famous fighters — the Corsair, Wildcat and Hellcat — are possible only because they are based on fundamentals developed by the NACA. All of...been possible without the contributions of the NACA." 24 As the war progressed, speeds kept edging up. The pursuit airplanes that experienced compressibility... | |
 | United States. Congress - 578 pages
...defensive strength In space. He said at that time: "New ideas are weapons of immense significance. The US Navy was the first to develop aircraft capable of...decision to employ Gemini technology In the Air Force MOL project. But this is merely the forerunner of similar applications not only in manned operations, but... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - 682 pages
...naval warfare, the late Frank Knox made the following statement while he was Secretary of the Navy: "New ideas are weapons of immense significance. The...been possible without the contributions of the NACA." After the war, NACA was free once again to move ahead in the frontiers of aeronautical research. Post-war... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - 1961 - 738 pages
...because they are based on fundamentals developed by the NACA. All of them use NACA wing sections, XACA cooling methods, NACA high-lift devices. The great...expanding grip in the Pacific would not have been possible withe contributions of the NACA." AS the war progressed, speeds kept edging up. The pursuit airplanes... | |
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Navy was the first to develop aircraft capable of vertical dive bombing ; this was made possible by the prosecution of a program of scientific research by the NACA. The Navy's famous fighters — the Corsair, Wildcat, and Hellcat — are possible only... 