Twenty Sixth Annual Report Of The National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics 1940 PDF Download

Excerpt from Sixth Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1920: Including Technical Reports, Nos. 83 to 110 In compliance with the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1915 (naval appropriation act, Public, no. 273, 63d Cong), I have the honor to transmit herewith the Sixth Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, including a state ment of its expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. In addition to the exercise of its prescribed functions in the field Of Scientific research in aeronautics, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has, during the past year, given special consideration to the question Of organization of governmental activities in aero nautics, and has effected a coordination of views on this subject between the military and naval air services and other governmental agencies concerned. The agreements reached have been given definite expression in a draft of legislation providing for the establishment of a Bureau of Aeronautics in the Department of Commerce for the regulation and encourage ment of commercial air navigation. In this connection attention is invited to that section of the report entitled Organization of Governmental Activities in Aeronautics. The attention Of the President and 0f the Congress is especially invited to the closing section of the report, entitled A National Aviation Policy, and the specific recommendations of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics therein set forth as to the legislative steps which in its judgment are necessary to carryr such a national aviation policy into effect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.