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NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS
WASHINGTON, D. C.

MEMBERS

Chairman........................ DR. JEROME HUNSAKER
Vice Chairman .................. DR. THEODORE P WRIGHT
GENERAL CARL SPAATZ              VICE ADM. ARTHUR W. RADFORD
 (United States Army)              (United States Navy)
WILLIAM A. M. BURDEN             ARTHUR E. RAYMOND
(Department of Commerce)         DR. FRANCIS REICHELDERFER
DR. VANNEVAR BUSH                  (U.S. Weather Bureau)
DR. E. U. CONDON                 REAR AMD. L. B. RICHARDSON
 (National Bureau of Standards)   (United States Navy)
R. M. Hazen                      DR. ALEXANDER WETMORE
WILLIAM LITTLEWOOD                (Smithsonian Institution)
MAJ. GEN. E. M. POWERS           DR. ORVILLE WRIGHT
(United States Army)

OFFICIALS

Director of Aeronautical Research...................DR. GEORGE W. LEWIS
Executive Secretary ................................JOHN F. VICTORY
Assistant Secretary ................................Edward H. Chamberlain
Engineer in Charge, Langley Memorial Aeronautical
Laboratory (Langley Field, Va.) ....................HENRY J. E. REID
Engineer in Charge, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory
 (Moffett Field, Calif.) ...........................SMITH J. DeFRANCE
Manager, Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory
 Cleveland Airport, Cleveland, Ohio) ...............EDWARD R. SHARP
Executive Engineer, Aircraft Engine Research Labo-
ratory (Cleveland Airport, Cleveland, Ohio) ........CARLTON KEMPER

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CREATION AND AUTHORITY.- The National Advisory Committee for Aero-nautics was created by act of Congress approved March 3, 1915 (38 Stat. 930; 49 U. S. C. 241), as amended by the act approved March 2, 1929 (45 Stat. 1451; 49 U. S. C. 241), as amended by the act approved June 23, 1938 (52 Stat. 1027; 49 U. S. C. 241).

PURPOSE.- The law provides that the Committee shall "supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution, ..." and also "direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics."

The general purposes of the Committee are to-

1. Coordinate the research needs of aviation, civil and military.

2. Prevent duplication in the field of aeronautical research.

3. Conduct, under unified control of the Committee, scientific aeronautical re-search, including:

(a) Special investigations in the nature of applied research on problems submit-ted by the Army and Navy for immediate improvement in performance of military and naval aircraft.

(b) Fundamental researches instituted by the Committee on its own initiative or authorized upon request of the Army, Navy, or Civil Aeronautics Authority to in-crease speed, safety, and economy of operation of aircraft, military and civil.

4. Advise the War and Navy Departments, the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and the aviation industry as to the latest research information.

5. Consider merits of aeronautical inventions submitted by the public to any agency of the Government.

6. On request of the President, the Congress, or any executive department, to advise upon any special problem in aeronautics which may be referred to it.

ORGANIZATION.-The Committee is composed of 15 members appointed by the President, and consists of 2 representatives each of the War and Navy Depart-ments (from the offices in charge of military and naval aeronautics) and Civil Aero-nautics Authority, 1 representative each of the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Weather Bureau, and the National Bureau of Standards, together with 6 ad-ditional persons who are "acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science either civil or military or skilled in aeronautical engineering or its allied sciences."
All the members serve as such without compensation.

LABORATORIES.-The Langley Memorial Aeronautical Labaratory at Langley Field, Va., the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory at Moffett Field, Calif., and the Air-craft Engine Research Laboratory at Cleveland, Ohio, are the principal aeronauti-cal research laboratories of the Government, where the Committee carries on fun-damental scientific research and development on which the War and Navy Depart-ments, the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and the aircraft industry rely for new knowledge underlying progress in improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of American aircraft.

OFFICE OF AERONAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.-This Office was established in the early part of 1918. It serves as the depository and distributing agency for the scientific and technical data on aeronautics comprising the results of Committee researches and for similar information collected by the Committee from government-al and private agencies in this country and abroad.

OFFICE OF AERONAUTICAL INVENTIONS.-This Office gives preliminary con-sideration to, and analyzes and prepares reports on, the merits of aeronautical in-ventions and designs submitted to the Government through any agency.

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JOHN F. VICTORY
WASHINGTON, D. C.
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
FOR AERONAUTICS

(FROM "WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA" 1946-1947)

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