National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a US federal agency founded on March 3 1915 to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1 1958 the agency was dissolved. Its assets and personnel formed the core of the newly created NASA.

External Link

• NACA Technical Report Server

Further reading

• John Henry, et al. Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4406/cover.html