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The National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics<\/span>, or NACA<\/span>, which celebrates its 95th anniversary on March 3, provided the nation's earliest research and helped develop important technologies, as well as knowledge of flight safety and efficiency.

NASA<\/a> <\/span>adopted many of these research techniques and many of the places in which to do it, like wind tunnels and entire research centers, from the NACA<\/span>. Engine cowlings to cover propellers and a series of proven air foil shapes for aircraft wings--both of which reduced drag and improved speed and efficiency--were chief NACA contribution<\/span>s subsequently adopted by every aircraft of the day and improved upon over the decades.<\/p>

This image shows NACA <\/span>chief test pilot Melvin Cough outside a hangar at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. The test vehicle on the right is a Curtiss BF2C-1 Goshawk<\/span>, which was used by the U.S. Navy in the early 1930s and featured retractable landing gear.<\/p>

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