Instrumentation in 16 Foot Wind Tunnel manometer boards

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L57-525 Engineer W.J. O Sullivan, Jr., looks at inflated 20 inch subsatellite while holding inflation bottle and folded duplicate copy, February 1957. Photograph published in A New Dimension Wallops Island Flight Test Range: The First Fifteen Years by Joseph Shortal. A NASA publication. Page 601.

IBM 704 Computer Operations People on the photo are: Woman in the front with her back to the camera is Jean Ruddle Migneault. She provided the names for the rest of the staff in the photo. Kathy Christian Young, Mary Talmage Kaylor, Willie Terrell Ruffin (computer operator not mathematician), Joyce Alston Clemens, Lou Mayo Ladson, Rachel Richardson Mayo, Sadie Livingston Boyer , Joann Shipp Buschman worked in hangar in West Area, Shelva Blevins Stroud (programmer in data reduction), Jackie Kilby, Rita Englebert, Harriet Seals Winestein, Lillian Boney, Jane Thompson Kemper, Helen Thompson ( math aide) Jane and Helen were daughters of Floyd Thompson, center director.

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L57-660 A technician prepares dynamic models of the Bell X-1E and the Vought XF-8U Crusader for wind tunnel testing in 1957. The Crusader was then the Navy's fastest aircraft- maximum speed Mach 1.75 at 35,000 Feet. Photograph published in Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958 by James R. Hansen. Page 307.

NACA Laboratory Computers Help Compile Handbook: ''Monroe Methods for Algebra, " a new booklet describing short-cuts that can be used in solving frequently-used algebraic formulas with a calculating machine, is undergoing its first trial at the hands of Laboratory computers. Several Monro-matics were purchased recently by NACA. NACA Air Scoop August 17,1951 Page 4. People on the photos re W.H. Rankins, David M. Goldenbaum and Marian D. Holzbach

NACA Laboratory Computers Help Compile Handbook: ''Monroe Methods for Algebra, " a new booklet describing short-cuts that can be used in solving frequently-used algebraic formulas with a calculating machine, is undergoing its first trial at the hands of Laboratory computers. Several Monro-matics were purchased recently by NACA. In photo are W.H. Rankins discusses the "Monroe Methods for Algebra" with Gladys Storey (seated) and Ferne Gapcynski, both of 16 foot Hight Speed Tunnel. NACA Air Scoop August 17,1951 Page 4.

NACA Laboratory Computers Help Compile Handbook: ''Monroe Methods for Algebra, " a new booklet describing short-cuts that can be used in solving frequently-used algebraic formulas with a calculating machine, is undergoing its first trial at the hands of Laboratory computers. Several Monro-matics were purchased recently by NACA. NACA Air Scoop August 17,1951 Page 4.

NACA Laboratory Computers Help Compile Handbook: ''Monroe Methods for Algebra, " a new booklet describing short-cuts that can be used in solving frequently-used algebraic formulas with a calculating machine, is undergoing its first trial at thehands of Laboratory computers. Several Monro-matics were purchased recently by NACA. In photo are W.H. Rankins discusses the "Monroe Methods for Algebra" with Gladys Storey (seated) and Ferne Gapcynski, both of 16 foot Hight Speed Tunnel. NACA Air Scoop August 17,1951 Page 4.

NACA Laboratory Computers Help Compile Handbook: ''Monroe Methods for Algebra, " a new booklet describing short-cuts that can be used in solving frequently-used algebraic formulas with a calculating machine, is undergoing its first trial at the hands of Laboratory computers. Several Monro-matics were purchased recently by NACA. NACA Air Scoop August 17,1951 Page 4.