...members, as such, serve wthout compensation. The duties of the committee, as provided by Congress, are to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...solution and their application to practical questions. The committee's research laboratory and experimental station is located at Langley Field, Virginia....

...and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solutions, to determine the problems which should be experimentally...solution and their application to practical questions." With the absorption of NACA into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1958, this responsibility...

...progress of aeronautics." Functions of the Committee. — The law provides that this Committee shall " supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems...solution and their application to practical questions." This Committee is also authorized by law to " direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics."...

...Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, as such, shall serve without compensation: Provided further, That it shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...solution, and to determine the problems which should bo experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to practical questions....

...appointed by the President and serving as such without compensation. The duties of the Committee are to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the...flight, with a view to their practical solution," and to "direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics" in such laboratories as may be placed under...

...with responsibility for scientific aeronautical research. It was established by the Congress in 1915 to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the...flight with a view to their practical solution," and was authorized to "direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics" in such laboratory or...

...Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which is to consist of not more than twelve scientists, and is " to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight with a view to their practical solution." To aid this Committee and the new Advisory Committee of the Navy, a new society, called the American...

...established by act of Congress, approved March 3, 1915 (USC title 49, sec. 241). Its duty under the law is to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight with a view to their practical solution." It is also authorized to "direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics" in such laboratories...

...work ? That was passed in the naval appropriation act, approved March 3, 1915, and provides that it shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...solution and their application to practical questions; and that in the event of a laboratory or laboratories, either in whole or in part, being placed under...

...work? That was passed in the naval appropriation act, approved March 3, 1915, and provides that it shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...solution and their application to practical questions ; and that in the event of a laboratory or laboratories, either in whole or in part, being placed under...