Arthur_Foyt

Take 4 years to scan every part of a 50 year old airplane? I’ll bite, why not scan them during assembly in Fort Worth? You can even see the assembly order and get real hints on how/why systems integrate. Duh!

Gerard_Caron

Two reasons. First, final assembly was moved from Fort Worth to Greenville SC 4 years ago to make room for F-35 assembly. Second, final assembly involves assembling sub-assemblies that are built by sub-contractors elsewhere. So you don’t have access to individual components other than LRUs which aren’t the issue being addressed as LRUs are easy to replace (by definition).

system

I can understand scanning an antique, but don’t we already have all of the manufacturing drawings for the F16? On computer already?

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system

Wow, an actual article on a relevant aviation topic.

system

2D CAD drawings? Sure.
Parametric 3D models? Not likely.