Photos:
http://www.byterapers.com/~grendel/photos/hallinportti052003/Last weekend was well spent. We sat at Hallinportti Aviation Museum archives from dusk till dawn, scanning, scanning, scannign.
Last time we copied some 1800 pages of manuals in three days. Now with good, fast USB2 scanners we managed 2500-3000 pages in two days.
And some great fish we've found! Full Messerschmitt 109 G manuals, from spare part lists to full repair and operations manuals, same with Ju-88s. Curtiss Hawks, Brewsters, Fiats, various aircraft engines, test flight reports, Soviet booty bombers SB-2 DB-4 Pe-2 manuals, everything...
But it always feels that the more we scan, the more there is left undone....
This copying operation is part of the Finnish Virtual Pilots Association historical project, copying ageing archives to digital form to save them from being slowly destroyed; to give them freely to the Finnish museums for putting into sale; and to offer the manuals for the aviator community worldwide for references.
More about Hallinportti museum:
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/feature/photoreports/hallinportti2002/
