Puma Helicopter
A Puma helicopter scanned in its hangar in 2012 to design maintenance equipment, and reprocessed today to show what a legacy dataset still holds.
VIDEO · MODEL VIEWER TO FOLLOW
01 · Brief
Bespoke maintenance equipment had to fit an aircraft exactly, without anyone touching it. The scans were made to support that design. Years later the question was whether the same data could still serve.
02 · Toolbox
- Leica HDS6000
- Supporting photography
03 · On location
Multiple scan positions around the aircraft in a controlled hangar, with photography for texture and reference. No contact with the airframe at any point.
04 · Result
The registered scans and imagery, reprocessed with current software, produced an accurate textured model fit for engineering analysis, visualisation, simulation and training.
- Registered point cloud
- Textured mesh
- Engineering renders
year captured
points of contact with the aircraft
scan set-ups
model accuracy
TODO marks 2 figures still to come from Kittiwake. Listed in docs/gaps.md.
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