Engineer in Charge A History of the Langleyaernautical Laboratory 1917-1958

by James R. Hansen

History of Langley Aeronautical Lab

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1987

About the author

James R. Hansen is a professor of history at Auburn University in Alabama.His book From the Ground Up won the History Book Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1988. For his work, The Wind and Beyond (NASA) - (six-volume series), he was awarded the Eugene Ferguson Prize for Outstanding Reference Work by the Society for the History of Technology in 2005.

Reviews

[Andy Thistle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Surprised at how good this was. Insightful and apolitical.