| NASA Oral History Project: NACA,
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Before
NASA there was NACA – the National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics. Started in 1915, the original focus deemed
by the federal government was for the advisory panel of 12 people
“to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems
of flight, with a view to their practical solutions.”
A few years after its inception, the Committee became an organization
with a more broadened purpose. During the next forty-three years,
the work of NACA members impacted aircraft developed for wars,
commercial travel, and journeys beyond the earth’s atmosphere.
However,
with the birth of the nation’s space agency, NACA faded
gently at the four facilities where it had thrived and was dissolved
officially on October 1, 1958. At the Langley, Ames, and Lewis
Research Centers, as well as the High Speed Flight Station (Edwards
AFB, CA), NACA members transitioned quietly to the new organization,
NASA. They took their experience, their knowledge, their passion,
and the traditions gained from working as NACA and used these
as a foundation to forge the future achievements in American
aviation.
This NASA
Oral History Project captures the experiences of some of the
individuals representing the four NACA facilities and its headquarters,
giving the project a reflection of contributions and projects
from each of the centers.
Bahan-Szucs, June C.
Intro (21K)
9-29-05 (131K) |
Lewis
Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory,
Cleveland,
Ohio |
Boyd,
John W.
Intro (21K)
10-3-05 (121K) |
Ames
Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett
Field, California |
Cavallo,
Stefan A.
Intro (21K)
9-30-05 (133K) |
Langley
Aeronautical Laboratory, Hampton, Virginia |
Dibella,
Jo
Intro (21K)
10-2-05 (112K) |
NACA
Headquarters, Washington, DC |
Drake,
Hubert M.
Intro (21K)
9-30-05 (85K) |
Langley
Aeronautical Laboratory, Hampton, Virginia |
Dusterberry,
John C.
Intro (21K)
9-29-05 (102K) |
Ames
Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett
Field, California |
Graham
Robert W.
Intro (21K)
9-30-05 (88K) |
Lewis
Flight Propulsion Research
Laboratory, Cleveland,
Ohio |
Kehlet,
Alan B.
Intro (23K)
9-30-05 (198K)
Bio Sheet (33K) |
Langley
Aeronautical Laboratory, Hampton, Virginia |
Kenner,
Gene A.
Intro (21K)
10-2-05 (106K) |
High
Speed Flight Research Station, Edwards Air Force Base, California |
McTigue,
John G.
Intro (21K)
9-29-05 (100K) |
Dryden Flight
Research Center, Edwards, California |
Peterson,
Victor L.
Intro (21K)
10-3-05 (110K) |
Ames
Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett
Field, California |
Silveira,
Milton A.
Intro
(22K)
10-2-05 (92K)
4-18-06 (111K)
Bio Sheet (37K) |
Langley
Aeronautical Laboratory, Hampton, Virginia |
Syvertson,
C.A. "Sy"
Intro (21K)
9-29-05 (114K) |
Ames
Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett
Field, California |
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More transcripts
are available from the alphabetical list above or from the complete
list of participants.
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Oral History transcript is archived in the JSC History Collection.
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Transcript
lists were last updated: June
30, 2008
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