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Aviation pioneers at a conference, Langley Field, Virginia, USA, May 23, 1934. Eight of the twelve members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) attending the 9th Annual Aircraft Engineering Research Conference. Left to right: pilot Charles A. Lindbergh; Vice Admiral Arthur B. Cook, US Navy; Charles G. Abbot, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Dr. Joseph S. Ames, Committee Chairman; Orville Wright, (co-inventor of the world's first successful motor-operated airplane); Edward P. Warner; Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, US Navy; Eugene L. Vidal, Director, Bureau of Air Commerce.