2007 Thunderbirds Aircraft, F-16 Fighting Falcon NASA Identifier: C-2007-1874
WE FREEZE TO PLEASE - BOOK SIGNING NASA Identifier: C-2002-1875
2007 Thunderbirds Aircraft, F-16 Fighting Falcon NASA Identifier: C-2007-1875
WE FREEZE TO PLEASE - BOOK SIGNING NASA Identifier: C-2002-1876
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Portable Electronic Device (PED) study. Chamber B Fuel Quantity Indication System (FQIS) installation. Photographed in building 1220, room 144B. NASA Identifier: L99-1876
VISIT OF MEMPHIS BELLE BOMBER NASA Identifier: C-1943-1876 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
EC03-0163-16 The mural was created to celebrate the achievements of Wilbur and Orville Wright and to commemorate a century of powered flight. Central to the composition is the 1903 Wright Flyer. ''On Dec. 17, 1 More
Petty Officer 3rd Class Mackenzie Malloy sits atop a mountain of more than 1,200 Christmas Trees on the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw while helping to decorate the ship in Christmas lights, Dec. 1, 2017. The Mack More
L90-4341: "The Langley Aerodrome, brainchild of a group led by Samuel Langley. Shortly after this photo was taken, the December 8, 1903, manned tests of the Aerodrome ended abruptly in failure, as it fell into More
Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834 - 1906) and Charles M. Manly (left) chief mechanic and pilot on board the houseboat which served to launch Langley's Aerodrome aircraft over the Potomac River in 1903. NASA Identif More
Destroyer USS Strong transiting the Panama Canal May 1952, View of the Panama Canal and locks from the deck of the USS Strong. Strong was attached to Destroyer Divisions (DesDiv) 21 and 262 bound for action in More
Women employees in 1919 at Navy Yard Puget Sound, later to be known as Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility.
Trench Art (Shell Casings, Canteens, Mess Kits, Souvenirs), World War I, Western Europe. Photographed at U.S. Army Medical Department Museum, Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, TX, 11JUN15. (U.S. Army ph More
Pvt Darrell Dunkle, born and raised in Reno, was killed during World War I. The city of Reno and the Nevada Air National Guard will honor Dunkle's legacy during Reno's annual Veterans Day parade.
In this photo from the book "Official Pictures of the World War" National Guard Soldiers of Ohio's 166th Infantry Regiment of the 42nd Division make their way through the snowy French countryside during Decemb More
(Images and information Courtesy of the Pennsylvania National Guard Military Museum) Mrs. Cebron A. Benbow (then Elizabeth Dorothy Sandelius), a Cokedale, Montana native and nurse of the Army Corps, received a More
This is a photo of Army Col. Robert Bruce McCoy from 1918 during World War I. During the war, McCoy served in France. McCoy is the founder of Fort McCoy, Wis. (U.S. Army Historical Photograph)
Private First Class Linton Carl Fendley, stands at the position of attention after graduating boot camp aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in 1917. Fendley served with 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Reg More
National Guard Soldiers of the 166th Infantry (formerly the 4th Regiment, Ohio National Guard) move forward with weapons at the ready during an attack in the autumn of 1918. The 166th Infantry fought as part of More
Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory as it appeared shortly after completion in 1918. Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publication (page 2), by James Schultz. NASA Identifier: L1378
Soldiers from the 308th Infantry Regiment (part of the 77th Inf. Div.) and 166th Infantry Regiment (part of the 42nd Inf. Div. {the Rainbow Division}) as "...they liberate a French town in 1918..."
A French instructor introduces National Guard Soldiers of the 42nd "Rainbow" Division to life in the trenches during World War I. French instructors taught American Soldiers the basics of trench warfare as the More
American Soldiers in Alsace, Company A, 125th Regiment, Infantry, (formerly 21st and 33rd Regiment Infantry, Michigan National Guard), 32nd Division, passing border post when marching in to Germany, Sentheim, A More
Three years to the day after Army Pvt. Nels Wold was killed and buried near Cheppy, France, his remains were returned to his hometown of Winger, Minn., Sept. 26, 1921, for a funeral that local newspapers report More
This map from a 1919 story in the New York Times about the 27th Division, outlines the area of the division's first battles in France and specifically the Vierstaat Ridge Battle from August 31 to Sept. 2.
NASA Identifier: S73-30625 Public domain photograph of military parade, army ceremony, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Soldiers of the 107th Infantry, 27th Division, on guard at old French chatea east of St. Souplet, Nord, France on October 19, 1918. The New York National Guardsmen of the 27th Division took tremendous casualt More
Commissary in Nievere, France, Jan. 8, 1919, after the Armistice. This photo shows the commissaries were already racially integrated. Finally, the color of the uniform meant more than the color of the skin. Bu More
New York National Guard Soldiers of the 27th Division during a review for New York Governor Charles S. Whitman at Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, on Nov. 2, 2917. The 27,000 men of the division trained at the More
U.S. Marines outside a dugout in WOrld War I. The Marines fought as part of the 2nd Division in the American Expeditionary Force. Their first battle was fought in Belleau Wood in June 1918. Courtesy photo.
A 1917 photogrpahs of Camp Syracuse, a recruit camp outside Syracuse, New York, shows Onondaga Lake in the background in this 1917 photograph. In 1918 2,900 of the 12,000 Soldiers had camp Syracuse developed in More
Soldiers pose for a photo at a camp at present day Fort McCoy, Wis., in 1910. Prior to the U.S. involvement in World War I in 1917-18, Fort McCoy was a fledgling installation that was established in 1909. (U.S. More
Members of Company C, 147th Infantry, 37th Division, who captured the first German prisoners for the 37th Division, back from the trenches for a rest near Brouville, France, Aug. 14, 1918. Pictured are: Cpl. J. More
Fort Bliss, Texas - 1955: Patch Orders Requesting for a Separate Tab According to Kari Atkinson, Director of the 1st Armored Division & Fort Bliss Museum, this looks to be a copy of patch orders from the Office More
Fokker D.VII: The Fokker D.VII was one of the best fighter aircraft of World War I, and was the only weapon used by the Central Powers specifically mentioned in the Versailles Treaty. The Central Powers surrend More
Mobile telephone operators of the U.S. Army Signal Corps operate a switchboard at a headquarters in France during 1918, shown here in a cropped photo of a scene on screen in the documentary film, "The Hello Gir More
U.S. Army Soldiers of Company B, 9th Infantry Regiment pose in 1917 at Camp Syracuse, N.Y. The regiment provided training to new recruits and National Guard Citizen Soldiers in America’s mobilization for World More
New York National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 69th Infantry Regiment, soon to be renamed the 165th U.S. Infantry, arrive at Camp Mills, near Garden City, N.Y. on Long Island in August of 1917. Camp Mills ser More
NASA Identifier: S73-30626 Public domain photograph of industrial building, landscape, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Col. Benson Hough (center, standing) and officers of the 166th Infantry aboard the USS Leviathan April 21, 1919, during their return trip to the United States following the end of World War I. Ohio National Gua More
New York Guard members identified as Jake, Jim, Garry, Dick,Tom, Bill, and Hill mount Guard near New Paltz, N.Y. sometime during 1918 in this photograph taken by Thomas F. Burke, a member of the New York Guard More
In this National Guard historic painting by H. Charles McBarron, Soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment, the Harlem Hellfighters, go into action near Sechault, France, on September 29, 1918 during the Meuse-A More
Soldiers of the New York National Guard's 69th Infantry regiment, parade at the Nassau County Fairgrounds in September 1917 as the unit trained at Camp Albert Mills at the site of present day Garden City, N.Y. More
A photo of Alexander Louis Saldarini, acting quartermaster of the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, from World War I. Saldarini was one of 130 military members who lost their lives on Sept. 26, 1918 when a German U-boa More
This photo of a photo, shown Oct. 26, 2018, at the Fort McCoy, Wis., History Center, is of Col. Robert B. McCoy, Fort McCoy's founder, as he looked during World War I in 1918. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturk More
Sgt. Willis Burnworth (left), a member of the 145th Infantry, 37th Division, Ohio National Guard, in a photo circa 1917-18. On Oct. 31, 1918, after successfully leading his platoon in capturing a German machine More
U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 165th Infantry Regimental Band approach a square in a town along the Rhine River in Germany during their march into Germany for occupation duties in December 19 More
The “Stoppages and Jams” newspaper was the official newspaper of the School of Aerial Gunnery at Selfridge Field during World War I. This edition of the paper from Oct. 25, 1918, was recently discovered by a ma More
The region occupied by the 27th Divison in July and August 1918 was criss-crossed by irrigation ditches. At this irrigation ditch near Ouderzeele, Belgium, the British had built bridges and boardwalks so that t More
New York National Guard Soldiers assigned to Company G, 1st New York State Infantry gather outside their armory in Oneonta, N.Y. sometime in July , 1917 following their mobilization for duty in World War I. The More
William E. Aubrey's name adorns the Kentucky National Guard Memorial in Frankfort, Ky. The monument holds the names of 269 men and women who have died in the line of duty since the inception of the Kentucky Nat More
Soldiers of the New York National Guard's 69th Infantry Regiment leave their armory on Lexington Avenue in New York City on August, 20, 1917 on their way to Camp Mills outside Garden City, N.Y. on Long Island w More
World War I Army nurse Irene Robar. Linnie Leckrone and Robar earned Silver Star Medals for treating wounded 32nd Division Soldiers while under enemy artillery fire.
Soldiers from the 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard, gather for a group photo with local children, in France, during World War I. The 36th Infantry Division fought on the front lines during the More
Over 5,000 32nd Division Soldiers celebrate an outdoor Christmas Eve service Dec. 24, 1917 led by Capt. Gustav Stearns, 127th Infantry Regiment chaplain. The troops were members of the Wisconsin and Michigan Na More
A LMAL carpenter prepares full scale wings for flight research, 1920. Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publication (page 36), by James Schultz. Published in Engineer in Charge, NAS More
NASA Identifier: S73-30627 Public domain photograph of the history of NASA, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lockheed Vega Air Express. Frank M. Hawks broke transcontinental speed record in this plane. It was the first production aircraft with the NACA cowling, 1929. NASA Identifier: L3271
Model of the XN2Y-1 for testing in 15-Foot Spin Tunnel. This was one of two balsa wood models (the other was a 1/12-scale model of the F4B-2) for initial testing and calibration of the new tunnel. Researchers w More
Boeing F3B-1: While most Boeing F3B-1s served aboard the U. S. Navy aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, this example flew in NACA hands at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in the late 1920's. More
A map of the Hampton Roads area from the late 1930s. the James River Bridge was completed in the late 1920s. NASA Identifier: L36943
Dr. Hugh Latimer Dryden, had many titles after his name in his lifetime. In 1949 he became the director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Dr. Dryden received many accolades and awards b More
Either a F2B-1 or F3B-1, both aircraft were built by Boeing and both were powered by Pratt and Whitney Wasp engines. These fighters were intended for Navy shipboard use. Boeing F3B-1: While most Boeing F3B-1s s More
Installation of Careystone covering at the Full-Scale Tunnel (FST) facility. The corrugated concrete and asbestos panels (1/4 inch thick; 42 inches wide; 62 inches long) which were used as siding and roofing fo More
Melvin N. Gough started his NACA career in the Propeller Research Tunnel. After taking flight training and becoming a reserve navy pilot in the late 1920s he transferred from the PRT to the flight test section. More
The LMAL flight crew installs an experimental low-drag cowling on the Fokker Trimotor, 1929. Photograph published in Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958 by James R. H More
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)'s first wind tunnel,Located at Langley Field in Hampton,VA,was an open-circuit wind tunnel completed in 1920. Essentially a replica of the ten-year-old tun More
Meeting of the NACA main committee in the NACA conference room, Washington D. C., 1920. (from right to left) Charles D. Wolcott, Joseph S. Ames, William F. Durand. Fourth from left is Orville Wright. At the cha More
A group of Soldiers trains at Camp Robinson, a precursor of Fort McCoy, in the 1920s. (U.S. Army file photo)
Digging the channel for the Tow Tank. In the late 1920s, the NACA decided to investigate the aero/hydro dynamics of floats for seaplanes. A Hydrodynamics Branch was established in 1929 and special towing basin More
Vikers Viking Amphibian - biplane: Initially procured in 1921 by the U.S. Navy during their studies of foreign designs, the Vickers Viking IV became NACA 17 during its short period of study at Langley. NASA Ide More
Engineer David L. Bacon and physicist Frederick H. Norton, escorted Orville Wright, in hat, around the laboratory during his visit in July 1922. To the right is George Lewis. NASA Identifier: L1767
The hero of most NACA engineers was Orville Wright. NASA Identifier: L226
The Variable Density Tunnel in operation. Variable Density Tunnel 1923. NASA Identifier: L463
Boeing PW-9 Army pursuit aircraft. First produced in about 1924. NASA Identifier: L6451
AWARD PHOTOS - ADMINISTRATION STAFF NASA Identifier: C-1986-1924 Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Installing the U.S.A. 35B airfoil test section for testing in the Variable-Density Tunnel(VDT). The VDT Log Book entry for January 3, 1925 notes that this airfoil was installed "for a test with the new big stre More
Fire gutted interior of Variable-Density Tunnel (VDT). On August 1, 1927 a major fire broke out inside the VDT. Clean-up, repair, redesign and reinstallation of equipment took about 8 months. From the Variable More
SPAD VII (Socitete Pour Aviation et des Derives): This SPAD VII, marked as NACA 10, flew at Langley from September 1922 until February 1925. NASA Identifier: L423
Model of Sperry Messenger (U.S.A. 5 airfoil) being tested inside the Variable-Density Tunnel (VDT). The tests were run in early January 1925. Testing was suspended on January 15th "until model and airplane coul More
Annual Conference, 1926: The annual industry conference grew from a small modest affair into a large, orchestrated pageant. At the first conference in 1926 this photo was taken on the steps of the administratio More
Sperry M-1 Messenger: The Army's Sperry M-1 Messenger tested variable-camber wings at Langley in 1926. NASA Identifier: L1313
Bee Line BR-1 Racer: The Bee Line BR-1 was a racing aircraft used to compete in the 1922 Pulitzer Air Race. The aircraft and its sister ship, the Bee Line BR-2, came to Langley and the NACA in 1926. The BR-1 is More
The city of Hampton was unable to supply adequate electric power to operate the PRT. Navy Captain Walter S. Diehl, Bureau of Aeronautics, acquired two 1000 hp submarine engines which were to be disposed of. BuA More
Boeing NB-1: Designed as a primary trainer for the U. S. Navy, the Boeing NB-1 was used by the NACA at Langley starting in October 1926. The float-quipped example used by the NACA was suspended from the NACA ha More
Modified Ford truck with a Huck starter, shown starting a Vought VE-7 in 1926. NASA Identifier: L1589
Equipment used for pressurizing the Variable-Density Tunnel (VDT): The VDT tunnel is on the right; the compressors are on the left. Figure 4 in the NACA Technical Report 227 (Part 2) identifies each piece of eq More
Sperry M-1 Messenger: The Sperry M-1 Messenger mounted for testing in the Propeller Research Tunnel, 1927. NASA Identifier: L2067
This Boeing PW-9 was built with strong tail surfaces and fuselage for the systematic investigation of pressure distribution. Although the PW-9 designation would seem to mark a military aircraft, the NACA Boeing More
Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis" equipped with 220 HP Wright Whirlwind engine. Charles A. Lindbergh flew this aircraft non-stop from New York to Paris in the period May 20-21 1927. Photographed in San Diego, Cali More
Langley administrative office in 1927. Note the blueprints on the table at right lower corner, and rubber stamp tree on the man's desk in left foreground. NASA Identifier: L2204