NASA Armstrong Celebrates 80 Years of Flight Innovation

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Pressivio’s Science desk has added the source report “NASA Armstrong Celebrates 80 Years of Flight Innovation” to its international monitoring stream.

On Sept. 30, 1946, five National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) engineers arrived at Muroc Army Airfield in California’s high desert to achieve supersonic flight for the first time. In less than two years, NACA flew the X-1 aircraft faster than the speed of sound, marking an important milestone in aviation history. Fast forward 80 […]