March 1925: The Rohrbach all-metal flying boat
An international peace treaty couldn't stop the development of a flying boat equipped with a mast and sails writes Jason Ford
Source: theengineer.co.uk
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An international peace treaty couldn't stop the development of a flying boat equipped with a mast and sails writes Jason Ford
Congress created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA, in 1915 to supervise and direct American aeronautical research. Spurred by Smithsonian Secretary Charles D. Walcott, the NACA soon became the nation's preeminent aeronautical research organization and attracted some of the nation's most creative engineers.