On the steps of Langley Research Building in 1928. front row, left to right: E.A. Meyers, Elton Miller, Amelia Earhart, Henry Reid, and Lt. Col. Jacob W.S. Wuest. Back row, left to right: Carlton Kemper, Raymond Sharp, Thomas Carroll, (unknown person behind Earhart) and Fred Weick. Earhart lost part of her raccoon coat in the high speed wind tunnel. Digitally restored.
From right to left, at Langley Field, Fred E. Weick, head of the Propeller Research Tunnel Section (1925-1929), in the rear cockpit, Tom Hamilton, standing, and Charles A. Lindbergh shortly after his return from his famous solo non-stop flight from New York to Paris. Digitally restored.
A ground crew member at Langley Field starts a Vought VE-7 with a Hucks Starter in a modified Model T Ford. A Hucks transmitted the power of the Model T's engine to the plane; it was also safer than starting the propeller by hand. Digitally restored.
Wearing a fur-lined leather flying suit with an oxygen mask, NACA test pilot Paul King prepares to take to the air in a Vought VE-7 from Langley Field. The Vought was the plane chosen by the Navy to be catapult-launched from battleships as observation planes. Digitally restored.
