Exactly WHAT IS….the “NACA”?

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GAHorn
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Exactly WHAT IS….the “NACA”?

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NACA…. How many have heard of it, much less know its History..?

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Oh, you bet.
In my younger days, I did a lot of work using the "Lift to Drag" tables of various airfoils that came from NACA data. Before being turned into NASA, they did a lot of much needed work.

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