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| Keywords: Unveiling of sign for Walter C. Williams Research Aircraft Integration Facility DVIDS692482.jpg en In a brief ceremony following a memorial service for the late Walter C Williams on November 17 1995 the Integrated Test Facility ITF at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards California was formally renamed the Walter C Williams Research Aircraft Integration Facility Shown is the family of Walt Williams Helen his widow sons Charles and Howard daughter Elizabeth Williams Powell their spouses and children unveiling the new sign redesignating the Facility The test facility provides state-of-the-art capabilities for thorough ground testing of advanced research aircraft It allows researchers and technicians to integrate and test aircraft systems before each research flight which greatly enhances the safety of each mission In September 1946 Williams became engineer-in-charge of a team of five engineers who arrived at Muroc Army Air Base now Edwards AFB from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics's Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory Hampton Virginia now NASA's Langley Research Center to prepare for supersonic research flights in a joint NACA-Army Air Forces program involving the rocket-powered X-1 This established the first permanent NACA presence at the Mojave Desert site although initially the five engineers and others who followed them were on temporary assignment Over time Walt continued to be in charge during the many name changes for the NACA-NASA organization with Williams ending his stay as Chief of the NASA Flight Research Center in September 1959 today NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center NASA Identifier NIX-EC95-43344-1 2009-09-24 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/692482 692482 2012-10-10 12 50 WASHINGTON DC US PD-USGov Langley Research Center Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ | ||||
