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02429aam a22003735i 4500 001 20680758C95911E9B8A3A61497128E48 003 SILO 005 20190828010018 007 ta 008 190501s2018 enkac b 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2018304332 020 $a 1634991206 020 $a 9781634991209 035 $a (OCoLC)1079420940 040 $d SILO 082 04 $a 629.1 100 1 $a Yarsinske, Amy Waters 245 10 $a NASA Langley Research Center : $b the first century : the early years / $c Amy Waters Yarsinske. 260 $a United States $b Arcadia Publishing $c 2019 300 $a 190 pages : $b illustrations (some color), portraits ; $c 25 cm 505 0 $a Introduction : a storied legacy, a soaring future -- The aviation experimental station and proving ground -- The birth of NACA Langley -- Faster and farther -- The war years -- Select bibliography -- About the author. 520 0 $a "'No place has played a larger role in the history of American flight technology or flight technology in general than Langley Research Center, ' observed Tom D. Crouch Ph. D., D.H.L., an aeronautics historian and senior curator with the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. 'It's hard to think of an airliner in the air today that doesn't have Langley's signature on it. It's hard to think of a military airplane flying today that Langley wasn't involved with in one way or another.' Langley research established many of the basic building blocks of aeronautics, changed the shape of aircraft and paved the way for jet aircraft that could fly at supersonic speed. Whether it is testing airbags for space capsule landings, developing technologies to allow aircraft to fly at supersonic and hypersonic speeds, or studying Earth's atmosphere, NASA Langley remains on the leading edge as it has since 1917"--Page four of cover. 610 20 $a Langley Research Center $x History 610 10 $a United States. $b National Aeronautics and Space Administration $x History. 610 10 $a United States. $b National Aeronautics and Space Administration 650 0 $a Aeronautics $z Virginia $x History. 651 0 $a Hampton (Va.) $x History. 651 7 $a Virginia. 651 7 $a Virginia $z Hampton. 655 7 $a Pictorial works. 655 7 $a U.S. History $x Adult nonfiction 941 $a 1 952 $l CZPD706 $d 20190828010526.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=20680758C95911E9B8A3A61497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search