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About the Project

The Government Documents Department of the Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology houses over 2,600 Air Force Technical Reports, the majority of them produced by the Wright Air Development Center. This collection of reports was the impetus behind the creation of Contrails.  Over time, each of these reports will be scanned, converted to pdf files, and permanently housed on the Contrails server.  This collection will serve as both an active source of technical information for today's researchers and as a historical documentation of the achievements of those who contributed to the aerospace  research efforts of the 20th century.

To learn more about the Contrails project, please view our PowerPoint Presentations:

• Wright Air Development Center Digital Collection (circa 2000)

• Contrails: The Evolution of an Air Force Technical Report Digitization Project (Presented at the Fall '05 Depository Library Council Meeting, October 18th, 2005, Washington, D.C.) (PowerPoint file for download)

• Contrails: The Evolution of an Air Force Technical Report Digitization Project (Presented at the Fall '05 Depository Library Council Meeting, October 18th, 2005, Washington, D.C.) (Web Based PowerPoint)

• Contrails: The Evolution of an Air Force Technical Report Digitization Project v 2.0 (Presented at the Illinois State Library Annual Government Documents Conference, May 4th, 2006, Springfield, IL) (PowerPoint file for download)