Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958 (Annotated and Illustrated)

Langley has had a remarkable history, not only during three decades as NASA Langley Research Center, but in an earlier period as well: during Langley's four decades as the flagship research facility of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Long before spaceflight, Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory began its work incubating the ideas and hatching the technology that made American aviation take off and fly. This book offers you that story.
More than just an outlining o...