1948 World War II AVIATION and ROCKET RESEARCH by NASA predecessor

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1948 World War II AVIATION and ROCKET RESEARCH by NASA predecessor
1948 World War II AVIATION and ROCKET RESEARCH by NASA predecessor
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George W. Gray. FRONTIERS OF FLIGHT, THE STORY OF NACA RESEARCH
(Knopf, NY, 1948) First Edition. (There was also a special limited edition in a variat binding with an inserted statement by NACA Chairman Jerome Hunsaker that was exclusively presented to NACA employees). Original cloth binding in worn pictorial Dust Jacket. 362+9 pp. Illustrated with drawings and photographs.
An important narrative of World War II research by NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which, ten years later, was to become NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
George William Lewis, the veteran NACA research director to whom the book is dedicated, was never high on Robert Goddard’s rocket research, so this volume’s chapter on Jet Propulsion pays slight attention to rocketry. It was only when General Jimmy Doolittle became head of NACA in 1956, that the Committee began rocket research in earnest, though by then it was already the domain of the Army and Navy. Still, due credit is given in this book to the pioneering work on high-speed aviation of Abe Silverstein and other future NASA scientists who would be instrumental in planning the Apollo, Voyager and other space missions.
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