Army creating Black Hawk rendering to prepare for FVL digital design

By Ethan Sterenfeld / October 14, 2021 at 2:05 PM
The Army is making a three-dimensional scan of every part within a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter as a test run for the digital modeling that it plans to implement with the Future Vertical Lift programs, the leader of Army Aviation and Missile Command said this week. “We are in the process of completely disassembling [the Black Hawk] down to the structural level, like the rivet, 3D-scanning every single one of those parts to get us a [computer-aided design] file model,”...

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