NACA

American  

Or N.A.C.A.

1. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

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Example Sentences

Another portal to homeownership Harris recommends is the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, also known as NACA.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2022

By 1949 Dorothy Vaughan had become the first African-American section head within the NACA, of the female-only, segregated West Area computing unit at Langley, which Johnson joined as a “computer” four years later.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2020

The NACA, however, was not the only rocketry program.

From The Verge • Jun. 24, 2018

He left the military in 1939 to join NACA, the early aeronautics research branch, and helped develop flight instrumentation for military aircraft during World War II.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2017

In October 1958, with Mother Langley as the nucleus, the US government fused all the competing operations, along with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, into the NACA.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly