George Lewis, NACA Director of Research
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Collection: NASA Image eXchange Collection Title: George Lewis, NACA Director of Research Description: George W. Lewis, director of research for the NACA from 1919 to 1947"in Engineer in Charge p 26. Date: 03.27.1990 Credit: NASA Langley Research Center (NASA-LaRC) [ lisar.larc.nasa.gov/ ] ID: EL-1997-00143 Other ID: L90-3732 UID: SPD-NIX-EL-1997-0014 3 Ori . . .

Hugh L. Dryden
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Collection: NASA Image eXchange Collection Title: Dr. Hugh L. Dryden - portrait Description: Dr. Hugh Latimer Dryden, had many titles after his name in his lifetime. In 1949 he became the director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Dr. Dryden received many accolades and awards both during his life and after his death, but the greatest and most appropriate honor came on March 26, 1976, when NASA renamed the NASA Flight Research Center as the NASA . . .

Joseph Ames
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Collection: NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection Title: Joseph Ames Full Description: 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 NACA's most challenging assignments but mostly represented physics. He chaired the Foreign Service Committee of the newly-founded National Research Council, oversaw the NACA's pat . . .

Members of NACA
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Collection: NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection Title: Members of NACA Full Description: NASA was formed in 1958 from the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, or NACA. The members of the Main Committee of NACA which met in Washington, D.C. on April 18, 1929 include from left to right: John F. Victory, Secretary Dr. William F.Durand Dr. Orville Wright Dr. George K. Burgess Brig. Gen. William E. Gillmore Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet Dr. Joesph S. Ames, Chairman Rear Adm. . . .

NACA Groundbreaking Ceremony
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Collection: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Collection Title: NACA Groundbreaking Ceremony Description: The NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station, had initially been subordinate to the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory near Hampton, Virginia, but as the flight research in the Mojave Desert increasingly proved its worth after 1946, it made sense to make the Flight Research Station a separate entity reporting directly to the headquarters of the National Advisory Co . . .

Dr. Hugh L. Dryden seated at desk
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Collection: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Collection Title: Dr. Hugh L. Dryden seated at desk Description: As a very young undergraduate Student at Johns Hopkins University Hugh L. Dryden proved himself especially gifted in physics and mathematics and began advanced study with Professor Joseph Ames, an important figure on campus. Ames not only headed the Physics Department but also eventually became President of Johns Hopkins. More important to Dryden?s development, hi . . .