![]() But people come from all over the country to take entry-level jobs at the NACA, which offers better training and hands-on experience than the best engineering graduate school program in the world. NACA scientists drive salesmen in department stores crazy by doing things like dismantling toasters to check their quality. Locals call the people who work at Langley “NACA nuts,” “weirdos,” or “brain busters.” ![]() Famous people frequent the laboratory: Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracey, and Myrna Loy. Henry Reid tells his staff to be on the lookout for spies. Langley is one of the United States’ most powerful secret weapons. The NACA tries to build planes that will allow them to defeat the Germans from the air, destroying the science that will hand the opposition a military advantage. They fly Bell P-39 Airacobras, then Republic P-47 Thunderbolts and then, by the summer of 1944, North American P-51 Mustangs. ![]() and the 332nd Fighter Group make headlines flying fighter planes. Black readers follow the exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen in the press. ![]()
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