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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS     45

lated by military requirements for advanced manned aircraft. In recent ears this stimulation has declined as a result of the growing concentration on development of missiles and space systems by the military and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is no longer possible for a civil aviation to progress mainly by reliance on the byproducts of military0related research and development programs.
There is no question that aeronautics is running a poor second to space technology in the time, talents, facilities, and funds expended on it within NASA. Steps must be taken to upgrade recognition of an activity in support of this national requirement.
With the decline of military emphasis on the manned combat aircraft, some shifts toward a more centralized coordination of civil aviation research and development in the United States appears needed. This need is sharpened by the forthcoming requirement for more extensive Government financial participation in essentially civil aeronautical development programs, such as the supersonic transport. There is the related need for determining the preferred level of effort in aviation research and development, and the preferred distribution of this effort among the several scientific disciplines, and among basic research, applied research, and development. It is suggested that the principal burden of future basic research be gradually shifted toward universities and private research organizations as their growing capabilities permit, with their efforts coordinated by the group and their findings made available to industry, as well as to Government.
It is further suggested that the NASA devote the bulk of its in-house aeronautical efforts to a vigorous applied research program, rather than to development engineering. Private industry and all the pertinent Government agencies must also be encouraged to continue their applied research and aviation-oriented fields.

Recommendations:

1. A senior technical group should be established within NASA charged with providing broad leadership, direction, guidance, and coordination to the entire aviation community in aeronautical research