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National Aeeonautics and Space Agency, Washington, D.O. : 14 framed 

 photographs of former members of the National Advisory Committee for 

 Aeronautics (N.A.M. 1161) ; 8-x-lO" piece of skin used in construction of 

 lOO'-diameter "Echo" passive communication satellite (N.A.M. 1160). 



Navy, Department of the, Washington, D.C. : Production version of Pratt & 

 Whitney J-57 jet engine (N.A.M. 1156). Naval Air Station, Patuxent, Md. : 

 Hiller Rotorcycle, one-place, portable helicopter (N.A.M. 1245). Exhibits 

 Section, Washington, D.C. : Models of technically and historically significant 

 Navy aircraft (N.A.M. 1234). Office of Naval Research, Washington D.C: 

 Hiller ducted platform (N.A.M. 1177). Bureau of Weapons, Washington, 

 D.C. Culver TD2C-1 target drone aircraft (N,A.M. 1196) ; Grumman TBF-1 

 Avenger, U.S. Navy torpedo bomber (N.A.M. 1197) ; Curtiss SB2C-5 "Hell- 

 diver" aircraft (N.A.M. 1198) ; Grumman F8F-1D "Bearcat" aircraft, last of 

 the reciprocating-engine carrier-based fighters developed for World War II 

 (N.A.M. 1199) ; first airplane to have landed at the South Pole, "Que Sera 

 Sera," an R4D (N.A.M. 1200) ; Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake" full-size flying 

 model, built to examine the practicability of a low aspect ratio wing configu- 

 ration (N.A.M. 1201) ; specimen of Japanese attack aircraft developed in an- 

 ticipation of a "last ditch" defense of the Japanese homeland (N.A.M. 1202) ; 

 Grumman F4F (FM-1) manufactured by Eastern Aircraft (N.A.M. 1203) ; 

 North American SNJ-4 (AF AT-6), advanced trainer used by both the U.S. 

 Navy and the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II (N.A.M. 1204) ; 

 Vought F4U-1B "Corsair," single-engine, single-place, inverted-gull-wing 

 fighter of World War II (N,A.M. 1205) ; Ryan FR-1 "Fireball," single-place 

 twin-engine low-wing aircraft (N.A.M. 1206) ; specimen of the Kaman K-225 

 helicopter, the first such vehicle powered by a gas turbine engine (N.A.M. 

 1207) ; Piasecki PV-3 tandem-rotor helicopter, designed as a medium-range 

 rescue and cargo vehicle (N.A.M. 1208) ; Arado Ar-196A, twin float recon- 

 naissance monoplane used on the German battleship "Prince Eugene" (N.A.M. 

 1209) ; Dornier Do-335 "Pfiel (Arrow)" twin-tandem-engined heavy fighter, 

 developed by the German Air Force about 1942 (N.A.M. 1210) ; an example 

 of the Vought OS2U-3 scout observation type aircraft (N.A.M. 1186) ; Grum- 

 man F6F-3 single-engine, single-place, low-wing monoplane fighter of World 

 War II vintage (N.A.M. 1187) ; Douglas D-558-2 "Skyrocket," rocket-powered 

 research aircraft, first to exceed twice the speed of sound (N.A.M. 1188) ; 

 Douglas SBD-6, of a type used extensively in the Pacific theater of opera- 

 tions during World War II (N.A.M. 1189) ; Interstate TDR-1 twin-engine, 

 low-wing monoplane, designed as a remote-control torpedo launching vehicle 

 (N.A.M. 1190) ; Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3, single-engine two-place bi- 

 plane trainer of World War II vintage (N.A.M. 1191) ; Sikorsky JRS-1 am- 

 phibian aircraft (N.A.M. 1192) ; Boeing (Stearman) N2S-5 Kaydet, two- 

 place, biplane, primai-y training aircraft (N.A.M. 1193) ; Grumman JRF-2 

 "Petulant Porpoise" modified to take different experimental hull configura- 

 tions (N.A.M. 1193) ; Hiller HOE-1 ram- jet-powered helicopter (N.A.M. 

 1195) ; Navy-Curtiss TS-1 (TR-1), sinsrle-place biplane fighter-trainer of 1922 

 vintage (N.A.M. 1219) ; components of Navy-Curtiss NC-4, the first airplane 

 to cross the Atlantic Ocean (N.A.M. 1220) ; group of 34 exhibition models of 

 varying scale of Navy aircraft types (N.A.M. 1253). 



Packard, Patrick H., Ontario, Calif. : Airplane designed by M. Henri Mignet, 

 the first of this design built in the United States at the direction of Powell 

 Crosley. (N.A.M. 1158.) 



Palen, Cole, Rhinebeck, N.Y. : Seven early aircraft instruments, mostly of 

 World War I vintage. (N.A.M. 1179.) 



