Down the placid waters of broad Chesapeake Bay from Washington last week churned two boatloads of aviation experts, manufacturers and operators to the brick and grass coziness of Old Point Comfort, Va. to attend the twelfth annual Aircraft Engineering Research Conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Carefully watched by soldiers and with cameras forbidden, they were driven to Langley Field to be chaperoned physically by NACA's Secretary John Victory and mentally by NACA's Research Director Dr. George William Lewis through the world's greatest collection of wind tunnels, to see what...
Transport: Tunnel Topics
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