...re-establish the US pre-eminence in aeronautical research. The stated responsibility of the NACA was to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight with a view to their practical solution". The Congress provided funds for the construction of a laboratory at Hampton, Virginia, and from 1915...

...that committee. In that bill the Congress ordered that "it shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...problems of flight, with a view to their practical and the solution and to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked and to discuss...

...National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was established by a rider to the Naval Appropriation Act "... to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...flight, with a view to their practical solution." The sum of $5 000 a year was appropriated for five years. NACA was the first war research agency of...

...members, as si'.ch, serve without compensation. The duties of the committee, as provided by Congress, are to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and thtir application to practical questions. Meetings of the full committee are held semiannually, in...

...Committee will be guided and limited is mainly covered by the following paragraph of this Act: "That it shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to practical...

...solutions and their application to practical questions." In the American legislation, this was rendered as "to determine the problems which should be experimentally...solution and their application to practical questions." The British explicitly stated that "the construction and use of dirigibles and aeroplanes having regard...

...comprehensiveness if measured against modern-day legislation. It directed NACA, the advisory council, to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight with a view to their practical solution." With that charter, and only modest resources over the years, NACA and its successor agency, NASA, have...

...even by standards of that time, but it must be remembered that this was an advisory committee only, "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...problems of flight, with a view to their practical solutions." Once the NACA isolated a problem, its study and solution was generally done by a government...

...wurden direkt vom Präsidenten berufen; ihre Tätigkeit war ehrenamtlich und ihre Aufgabe bestand darin "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight, with a view to their practical solution" sowie "to direct and conduct research and experiments in aeronautics." Erst 1920 erhielt NACA eigene...

...$5,000 rider establishing the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics and instructing the committee to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the...of flight with a view to their practical solution." With those simple but yet visionary words, the Congress and the Administration set in motion a process...