https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/0eb535ed-0b1e-43fc-906d-25a46025bd17 This 33-second video from the early 1950's features the infrastructure and facilities at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Research Station in Muroc, CA. In October 1946, five engineers arrived at Muroc Army Air Field from the NACA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. By December, there were thirteen NACA employees at the base, detailed to the remote location for the X-1 research project. Muroc's main allure was the dry lakebed, the largest such geologic feature in the world, and seemingly endless sunny days with cloudless skies. The Army provided NACA space in one of two main hangars on South Base. Meanwhile, the Army conducted its most sensitive operations at the more remote North Base facility several miles further north on the lakeshore. In addition to NACA, elements of the Army Air Forces and aviation contractors directly involved in flight-testing and research were at South Base. Given the remoteness of the Army field, many of the engineers and women computers found rudimentary housing on the base, in barracks dubbed "Kerosene Flats" for the permeating odor of the heating and cooking fuel. All NACA activity between 1946 and 1954 was conducted out of the work area provided on South Base as well as several adobe revetments where rocket engines were test run. To learn more about NACA visit: https://www.nasa.gov/naca100 Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/rqq_wCxukxQ Original channel: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:54:56 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/0eb535ed-0b1e-43fc-906d-25a46025bd17 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.