National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics

NACA Technical Note 3276, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (formerly National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics), 1956. 

Roark, R. J., Stres.ses and Deflections in Thin Shells and Curved Plates Due to Concentrated and Variously Distributed Loading, Technical Note 806, National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, 1941. 

The standard airplane spray tank was, at the time of Pearl Harbor, model MIO, holding about thirty gallons of liquid and streamlined in accordance with formulas recommended by the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. The CWS had begun development of this tank in 1937 at the request of the Air Corps and later, lacking time and person-... 

Durand, W. F. (1917). Technical Report No. 14, Experimental Research on Air Propellers. Annaal Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1917. Washington, DC U.S. Government Printing Office. 

The sizing of pulsation drums is based on the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Technical Note 2893. The single expansion chamber type has been chosen because of cost, ease of installation, and effectiveness. 

Davis, D. D.,Jr, G. L. Stevens,Jr., D. Moore, and G. M. Stokes, Theoretical and Measured Attenuation of Mufflers at Room Temperature without How, with Comments on Engine— Exhaust MufQer Design, Technical Note 2893, Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics, Washington, D.C., Feb. (1953). 

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) is a valuable source of information concerning plastics materials used in aircraft, such as transparent plastics, adhesives, and laminates of various types. Many reports on these materials are included in two comprehensive indexes (5, 4) of NACA technical publications. The reports are listed under subject headings, one of which is Plastics. To supplement the above, NACA Research Abstracts (5) is issued biweekly, listing reports on projects sponsored by... 

Professor Whitman is probably best known in technical circles for his development of the two-film theory for gas absorption and for contributions in the corrosion field. His later years were devoted largely to administration of the department and to public services such as the War Production Board, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Science Advisor to the Department of State, and Secretary General of the U.N. Conference on Peaceful Uses of the Atom. His citation on election... 

He was awarded the U.S. Medal for Merit and Great Britain s King s Medal for his service during World War II as Chief of the National Defense Research Committee s Fire Warfere Section and on the Gas Turbine Committee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. After the war he was Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Fire Research Committee for 10 years. He helped initiate and served for... 

During the years I knew him, he was a very busy man. His administrative responsibilities were substantial, not only as Head of the Physics Department but also as an Associate Director of Research with broader concerns. He served the National Research Council as an active member of its Committee on Catalysis and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics as a prominent member of its subcommittee on Lubrication, Friction and Wear. Those were heavy responsibilities during the years of World War II. He was a member of the Advisory Council of the American Institute of Physics and was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Physics. He was active also on the Advisory Committee of the American Petroleum Institute s Research Project 44, which was a very active one during the war. Needless to say, he travelled a lot. In his spare time he led an active personal life. He lived on a small ranch in the countryside to the east of San Francisco Bay there he bred and rode horses he was also a skier and had a lively interest in photography and other visual arts. His wife was an accomplished sculptress and they had many friends in the world of the arts. 

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