TRL Aero Junk Repository - for AERO addicts

TRL - Technical Reports Library

Aero Junk Repository - for AERO addicts

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Introduction:

Welcome to my personal collection of technical reports. Most of the reports in this archive are related to my 20 some years as an aerospace engineer. However, there are also reports and historical documents covering a broad array of scientific, engineering, mathematical, computer graphics, and computer programming subjects. All of the material in this archive should be public domain (most of it was created by United States Government agencies such as NASA) and I have filtered out any material from my private collection that is restricted by U.S. export laws.
I was motivated to post this material online by NASA's abrupt decision, in March 2013, to take the absolutely massive NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) offline due to questionable political maneuvering. Much of the NTRS repository has since been placed back online, but the damage this decision did to the American aerospace industry is immeasurable and the risk it was protecting against was vanishingly small. I'm reminded of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
In the end, the U.S. Government has shown that it is not an altogether reliable repository of official records. Members of the public who depend on access to such records should endeavor to make and preserve their own copies whenever possible. My personal collection is a pitance (about 9.1GB in about 1900 files), but I wanted to do what I could to share what little I have. What you will find here is a hierarchy of files in directories exactly how they appear on my hard drive, nothing fancy. So, please make as many copies as you wish and I only hope you find something useful to you.
Ad Astra,
Joe Huwaldt

Technical Report Library:

My report collection is organized as follows:

Engineering Research Reports		---	The main collection of my technical reports that have been useful to me in the design and analysis of aerospace systems, though there is a little material on alternate energy power generation and some other odds and ends as well.
Aerospace Vehicle Data		---	This is a sparse collection of data on various aerospace systems from general aviation airplanes, jet transports, bombers, and fighters, to launch vehicles, missiles, supersonic cruise aircraft, and X-planes.
Computer Programming		---	This is a very small collection of technical reports on computer programming and computer algorithms along with a few source code examples that have been useful to me for computer programming. The following link to mathematics also contains a lot of numerical programming related information.
Mathematics		---	This is a very small collection of technical reports on mathematics and numerical programming related subjects.
Other		---	Miscellaneous odds and ends from my collection that just don't seem to fit elsewhere.

Links:

Here are some links to sites that may be of interest when preserving collections of technical reports found online:

NTRS		http://ntrs.nasa.gov/	The NASA Technical Report Server. Once the largest publicly accessible archive of NASA technical reports. Currently censured and hobbled.
NACA Documents in the UK		http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/	A collection of the famous NACA technical reports collection. NACA was the predecessor to NASA. These documents used to be on NTRS, but can not be not found there at this time.
Internet Archive NASA Document Collection		http://archive.org/details/nasa_techdocs	The Internet Archive's collection of NASA technical documents. A big, but far from complete, collection of NASA technical reports and other documentation.
Internet Archive NASA Image Collection		http://archive.org/details/nasa	The Internet Archive's collection of NASA images. A big, but far from complete, collection of awe inspiring NASA images (NASA's image servers were also blocked when NTRS was blocked).
The Defense Technical Information Center		http://http://www.dtic.mil	A large collection of U.S. Department of Defense publicly accessible technical reports and other information. The irony with the shutting down of NTRS is that this site still has technical data that appears to me anyway to be more applicable to weapons technology than NTRS did.