Search Results: sixty years of aeronautical research 1917 1977 by anderton david a

Government Printing Office. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Softcover. A clean tight copy in stiff card covers showing light shelf and edge wear only. .

Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1978. presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Fair. [6], 89, [1] pages. Black and white illustrations. Rear cover has a creased corner. Rear cover torn at spine from top to about 1/3 of the way down. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a U.S. federal agency founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958, the agency was dissolved, and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NACA was pronounced as discrete letters, rather than as a whole word (and after NASA first was established, its acronym was pronounced as discrete letters in the early years). Among other advancements, NACA research and development produced the NACA duct, a type of air intake used in modern automotive applications, the NACA cowling, and several series of NACA airfoils which are still used in… Read More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1978. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 90, wraps, illus., diagrams, taped correction on title page, covers somewhat worn and soiled.