Diamond Member SpaceMan 0 Posted March 3, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted March 3, 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up NASA In this 1957 photo, George Cooper, a test pilot for the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , 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’s This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up in 1945. Between 1945 and his retirement in 1973, Cooper tested over 135 aircraft, routinely pushing them to their limits. On March 3, 1915, the NACA was established by Congress to “supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution.” Over the course of its 43 years, the NACA became home to many of the nation’s best and brightest aeronautical engineers and world-class facilities. America’s flight capabilities for military and commercial uses were advanced through its cutting-edge research. It was upon this foundation that America’s civilian space agency was built. With the passing of the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , the NACA was transformed into NASA and tasked with researching problems of flight in both the air and in space. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Image credit: NASA This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up For verified travel tips and real support, visit: https://hopzone.eu/ 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/233020-nasa-naca-test-pilot-poses-with-plane/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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