Document of the Week:
While the NACA, which had been founded in 1915, was in charge of U.S. fundamental research in aeronautical science and technology in the early 20th Century, standards and safety oversight for the new aircraft industry and pilots simply didn't exist in the early years. So, on March 16, 1921, the head of the NACA Executive Committee, Joseph Ames wrote to S.W. Stratton of the Bureau of Standards on the topic (the letter is below). Ames noted that the NACA had looked into the issue and advised the creation of such a regulatory body. NACA suggested that the new organization be called the Bureau of Aeronautics and that the proper place for it in the Executive Branch of the U.S. government was the Commerce Department.
While the NACA, which had been founded in 1915, was in charge of U.S. fundamental research in aeronautical science and technology in the early 20th Century, standards and safety oversight for the new aircraft industry and pilots simply didn't exist in the early years. So, on March 16, 1921, the head of the NACA Executive Committee, Joseph Ames wrote to S.W. Stratton of the Bureau of Standards on the topic (the letter is below). Ames noted that the NACA had looked into the issue and advised the creation of such a regulatory body. NACA suggested that the new organization be called the Bureau of Aeronautics and that the proper place for it in the Executive Branch of the U.S. government was the Commerce Department.
Although it took some years for this suggestion to be made the law of
the land, this proposal was one of the first steps in the creation of
the Civil Aeronautics Board, the forerunner of the modern Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA).
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