Congress created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1915 to revive American aviation research, which had fallen behind Europe after the Wright brothers' invention of the airplane. NACA established the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia, and later the Ames Research Facility in the Bay Area, pioneering systematic aeronautical engineering. The agency later became the precursor to NASA.
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40:22line impacted uh in this generation the the Ford Motor Company to decomplicate and iterate on how they build cars now to be able to be competitive in the global marketplace. >> Yeah. Back to the basics. >> Back to the basics. >> First principles, baby. >> That is exactly right. 1915 creation of the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics, NACA or NCAC, NCA. >> This was created by Congress to revitalize lagging American aviation research. So we we we invented the airplane with the Wright brothers. Yes. And then we basically didn't do much, right? and Europe started just innovating
41:02and Congress got wind and they're like, "Okay, we need to we need to create a facility, the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia." They also created Ames Research Facility out in uh the Bay Area and it pioneered systematic aeronautical engineering and became sort of a precursor for NASA later on >> 100%.