Group portrait of attendees at the 1939 NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) Annual Committee meeting. At centre is the chairman, the Am

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Group portrait of attendees at the 1939 NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) Annual Committee meeting. At centre is the chairman, the American engineer Vannevar Bush (1890-1974). On his immediate left is the deputy chairman and American aircraft engineer George J. Mead (1891-1949). NACA, the predecessor of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), was founded in 1915.

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