How a ‘digital twin’ of an Apache helicopter could help keep these old birds flying

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A team in Kansas will be scanning in the helicopter's thousands of pieces. Here's why.

competing in two separate Army programs), setting them apart in some ways compared to older machines.With the Apache program, beyond just scanning in the parts, the goal is to also put them together digitally so they represent a virtual version of the real aircraft, that can be used to model how loads or stresses might affect the real thing. She refers to the digital beast that they will create as a “high-fidelity engineering structural model.

So why not just get the plans from the company that made the helicopter in the first place, which for the Apache is Boeing? “I don’t know whether they exist at Boeing or not,” Lauback-Hock says.

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