As a guy who spent eight of the last nine years working at NASA's premier flight research facility, I've got to admit I see a lot of worry-lines in the mirror on this topic. The story in the link below asks the same question, and Dr. J. Shin, boss of NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, seems close to capitulating in the battle of the NASA budget, even though it wouldn't take all that much to re-establish some real flight research compared to the bucks involved in the James Webb Space Telescope budget over-run.
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/07/03/recapturing-nasas-aeronautics-flight-research-capabilities/
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