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Media:Airscoop1944V3I24.pdf NACA LMAL Bulletin Vol 3 Issue 24 Jun 3 1944

Media:1949-06-03 I22V08.pdf Langley Air Scoop Jun 3 1949

... about 250,000 in the SMC. The images include light ranging from 1,600 to 3,300 angstroms, which is a range of UV wavelengths largely blocked by Earth's atmosphere ...

... spacecraft is scheduled to depart the space station in early July, returning with more than 3,400 pounds of science, hardware and crew supplies. For more than 16 years, humans have ...

Navy let first contract for lighter-than-air craft in ordering one non-rigid airship from Connecticut Aircraft (later the DN-1).

U.S. Patent Office granted patent (No. 1142754) to Glenn H. Curtiss covering the arrangement of a step or ridge incorporated in the hull of flying boats.

The Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (later the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics or NACA) was established by a rider to the Naval Appropriations Act, ". . . to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view of their practical solution." The sum of $5,000 a year was appropriated for 5 years. The total appropriation for naval aeronautics was $1 ...

Lt. R. C. Saufley reached 11,975 feet over Pensacola in a Curtiss AH-14, an American altitude record for hydro-aeroplanes.

USAF and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA jointly announce details on the inertial guidance system to be used on the X-15 research aircraft, a flight instrument system to allow the pilot to prevent the aircraft twin reentering dense atmosphere too steeply or too shallow.

Moon relay transmission of President Eisenhower's voice by recording was made from Millstone Hill Radar Observatory, Westford, Mass., to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. DISCOVERER III failed to achieve orbit. Construction of the first Saturn launch area, Complex 34, began at Cape Canaveral , Fla. ''Senate Staff Report, Manned Space Flight Program, p. 169.''

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