{"id":182100,"date":"2025-03-04T06:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=09b334783c092e76db31665c7377db72"},"modified":"2025-03-04T06:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:39:49","slug":"naca-test-pilot-poses-with-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=182100","title":{"rendered":"NACA Test Pilot Poses with Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this 1957 photo, George Cooper, a test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA<\/a>, stands next to a North American F-100, a supersonic fighter tested by the NACA. Cooper served as a pilot in World War II before being hired at the NACA\u2019s Ames Aeronautical Laboratory<\/a> in 1945. Between 1945 and his retirement in 1973, Cooper tested over 135 aircraft, routinely pushing them to their limits.<\/p>\n

On March 3, 1915, the NACA was established by Congress to \u201csupervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution.\u201d Over the course of its 43 years, the NACA became home to many of the nation\u2019s best and brightest aeronautical engineers and world-class facilities. America\u2019s flight capabilities for military and commercial uses were advanced through its cutting-edge research. It was upon this foundation that America\u2019s civilian space agency was built. With the passing of the Space Act in 1958<\/a>, the NACA was transformed into NASA and tasked with researching problems of flight in both the air and<\/em> in space.<\/p>\n

Celebrate the 110th anniversary of the founding of the NACA with a new video series.<\/a><\/p>\n

Image credit: NASA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this 1957 photo, George Cooper, a test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA, stands next to a North American F-100, a supersonic fighter tested by the NACA. Cooper served as a pilot in World War II before being hired at the NACA\u2019s Ames Aeronautical Laboratory in 1945. Between 1945 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-advisory-committee-for-aeronautics-naca"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t