Curtiss Racer, NASA history collection
Description: (February 1928) James H. Doolittle, the NACA's last chairman, visited Langley in February 1928 in his Curtiss Racer, the plane in which he won the 1925 Schneider Trophy Race. Photograph published ... More
Pearl I. Young, NASA history collection
Description (March 29, 1929) Pearl I. Young, the NACA's first female professional, at work in the instrument research laboratory circa 1929. Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publi... More
Joseph Ames, NASA history collection
Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames at his desk at the NACA headquarters. Dr. Ames was a founding member of NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915. Ames took on N... More
Interior view of the long air return passage in the 16-foot transonic ...
Photo shows a multiple exposure with the photographer, William P. Taub, standing in the wind tunnel. No. 69590. Typed on verso: Courtesy, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1951. From the Collections... More
P-51 Mustang in Full Scale Tunnel
A P-51 Mustang in the Full Scale Tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory...(September 23, 1943)
19 foot Pressure Wind Tunnel - NASA wind tunnel. Public domain image.
Description (March 15, 1950) Guide vanes in the 19 foot Pressure Wind Tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, form an ellipse 33 feet high and 47 feet wide. The 2... More
P-51 Mustang on Lakebed. Experimental NASA aircraft photograph.
Description (1955) This photograph shows a NACA research pilot running up the engine of the F-51 Mustang on the taxiway adjacent to Rogers Dry Lake at the NACA High-Speed Flight Station in 1955. A P-51 Mustang,... More
Bell X-1E and Vought XF-8U Dynamic Models in 1957
L57-660 A technician prepares dynamic models of the Bell X-1E and the Vought XF-8U Crusader for wind tunnel testing in 1957. The Crusader was then the Navy's fastest aircraft- maximum speed Mach 1.75 at 35,000 ... More
Hypersonic Boost Glider, NASA Langley research center
Hypersonic Boost Glider in 11 Inch Hypersonic Tunnel L57-1681 In 1957 Langley tested its HYWARDS design in the 11 Inch Hypersonic Tunnel. Photograph published in Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Ae... More
Hot-Air Jets/Ceramic Heat Exchangers/ Materials for Nose Cones and Ree...
L57-5383 Hot-air jets employing ceramic heat exchangers played an important role at Langley in the study of materials for ballistic missile nose cones and re-entry vehicles. Here a model is being tested in one ... More
IRBM in Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
L57-700 In the reentry flight path of this nose cone model of a Jupiter Intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) was tested in the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel. Photograph published in Engineer in Charge: A Hist... More
Hypersonic Glider Model in Full Scale Tunnel 1957
L57-1439 A model based on Langley s concept of a hypersonic glider was test flown on an umbilical cord inside the Full Scale Tunnel in 1957. Photograph published in Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley ... More
Robert Champine in X-Series Pressure Suit
Robert Champine in X-Series Pressure Suit. Photograph published in Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958 by James R. Hansen. Page 305.
Five Stage Missile Research Rocket, Wallops Island , 1957
**Note also copied and numbered as L90-3749. -- L57-4827 caption: Take off of a five-stage missile research rocket from Wallops Island in 1957. The first two stages propelled the model to about 100,000 feet ... More
Gas Dynamics Laboratory or Spheres NASA Langley
L65-5505 In the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, completed in 1951, researchers explored basic aerodynamic, heating and fluid-mechanical problems in the speed range from Mach 1.5 to Mach 8.0. Photograph published in En... More
Maxime A. Faget, NASA Mercury project
Maxime A. Faget, an aeronautical engineer with a B.S. from Louisiana State University (1943), joined the staff at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory in 1946 and soon became head of the performance aerodynamics bra... More