Highest Honors for Game-Changing Innovation

In 1951, the Collier Trophy was awarded again to John Stack and associates at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory for the development and use of the slotted-throat wind tunnel. Stack, head of Compressibility Research Division, was a hard-charging man whose attitude toward unproven technology was usually, ''Let's try the damn thing and see if we can make it work.'' Image Credit: NACA
NASA Identifier: 431277main_collier_1951