Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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The Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (ACA) was a UK agency founded on 30 April 1909, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. In 1919 it was renamed the Aeronautical Research Committee, later becoming the Aeronautical Research Council.
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Formed | 30 April 1909 |
Dissolved | 1979 |
Jurisdiction | Government of the United Kingdom |
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later "Aeronautical Research Committee" then "Aeronautical Research Council", disbanded 1979 |
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Following the establishment of this committee, other countries created similar agencies, notably the French L’Etablissement Central de l’Aérostation Militaire in Meudon (now ONERA), the Russian "Aerodynamic Institute of Koutchino" and the U.S.A.'s National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, founded in 1915.
The Aeronautical Research Council was disbanded in 1979.