NACA

New York: NASA's Langley Research Centre -- a facility that changed the way how aeroplanes fly today and space is explored -- has completed 100 years, the space agency said in a statement on Monday. Founded in 1917, Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory was established as the US's first civilian facility focused on aeronautical research, with the an aim to "solve the fundamental problems of flight". In the beginning, Langley engineers devised technologies for safer, higher, farther and faster air travel. Better propellers, engine cowlings, all-metal airplanes, new kinds of rotorcraft and helicopters, faster-than-sound flight - these were among Langley's many groundbreaking…