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Flight Research at NASA Langley Research Center (VA) (Images of Aviation)

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Following the creation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1915, a unique flight research operations division used to be established on the nation’s first civilian aeronautics research laboratory, the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Langley flight research team of workers helped the nation’s aircraft industry bloom All over the Golden Era of aviation all the way through the 1920s and 1930s. Langley’s flight research then helped win World War II with performance-enhancing modifications to new aircraft. All over the cold war, Langley helped the rustic take care of an edge in aeronautics over its Warsaw Pact rivals. When the space race started, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) used to be created in 1958 and Langley’s pilots were instrumental in training astronauts. Along with advancing rotorcraft All over the 1960s and 1970s, Langley research pioneered a multitude of military and civil Vertical Short Takeoff and Landing (V/STOL) concepts. All over the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Langley research developed advancements usually and commercial aviation technologies.

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