NACA to NASA: 100 Years of Aeronautics Innovation

摘要

Streamlined aircraft bodies, quieter jet engines, techniques for preventing icing, drag-reducing winglets, lightweight composite structures, and so much more are an everyday part of flying thanks to NASA research that traces its origins back to the earliest days of aviation. All of us at NASA can be proud of our ongoing role in enabling aeronautical innovation and ingenuity, a research heritage that goes back 100 years to the formation in 1915 of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). March 3, 2015 marks the centenary of this occasion. The NACA was created by Congress over concerns the U.S. was losing its edge in aviation technology to Europe, ' where World War I was raging. NACA's mission, in part, was to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution."