The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Created in 1915 to supervise and direct American aeronautical research, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) helped solve some of flight's most difficult problems.
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Created in 1915 to supervise and direct American aeronautical research, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) helped solve some of flight's most difficult problems.
Today in Aviation, the iconic American investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, and filmmaker Howard Hughes was born in 1905.
At the Ritz-Carlton in Arlington, Virginia, aviation dignitaries gathered to celebrate the awarding of the Collier Trophy to Garmin's Autoland system.
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Garmin has won the 2020 Robert J Collier Trophy for Autoland, the world’s first certified autonomous system designed to activate during an emergency to safely fly and land an aircraft without human intervention.