How the NACA Duct Went From Early-Jet-Age Failure to Motorsport Fetish
The most famous of the early NACA-duct applications was on the hood of the 1956 Vanwall Formula 1 car (designed by aircraft ...
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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Bell X-1
On March 16, 1945, NACA and the USAAF awarded Bell Aircraft of Buffalo, New York with the construction of three XS-1s. Bell decided to model the fuselage shape of that of a bullet from an M2 Browning ...