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at Aermacchi, the management of the company
did not allow any further flying, given the
rare nature of the specimen, and the Veltro
ended up in the entrance of the administration
building, where we spent a good half day with it.
We scanned the critical parts, which is the
usual procedure, because it doesn't make sense
for us to scan the entire plane. We do the main
part of the design work of the basic 3D model
according to drawings, but we verify the shapes
of critical parts, such as the nose, tail section,
wing-fuselage transition, wingtip shapes and
wheel wells according to the data obtained by
scanning. We use the scanner in the next stages
of the development of the kit, especially when
checking the finished mold, when we scan
the mold and compare the shape of the parts
with the 3D pattern model. The introduction of
this method saves us tens to lower hundreds
of working hours that we used previously for
necessary fine tuning. The scan, interrupted by
lunch in the cafeteria and carried out with the
enthusiastic interest of the local staff, did not
finish until after four in the afternoon, we said
goodbye to our hosts and set off south to the
Piana delle Orme area near Anzio.
Since we were leaving Venogona Superiore
after four in the afternoon and had almost 750
kilometers to go, it was clear to us that we
weren't going to arrive at our hotel at any decent
hour before midnight, and we didn't.. But the
administrator was kind to us. Stan, who had
been designing very responsibly even during
this leg of the journey, declared that he wanted
to live in a single room by himself and that he
would continue to do the work at hand, because
tomorrow, which at that moment meant today,
our technologists needed to have the design
in their computers. Otherwise, there would be
a problem in meeting the time schedule. In the
morning at breakfast it was clear that he had
really been plugging away through the night. At
breakfast, Stan reported that he uploaded the
files to the company network at half past four in
the morning.
A P-40L was waiting for us at the museum
in Piana delle Orme. We didn't do any scanning
there, we just needed to take a good look at the
nose and compare it to the nose of the P-40E
and N. It's all about the engine; as you know, the
The Veltro has beautifully detailed workmanship.
The Mustang's undercarriage shaft design was a walk
in the park compared to the Veltro shaft.
A good old measure tools always comes in handy when working on such a project.
The undercarriage legs are articulated parts with lots of fine details. They are always
a challenge for the designer.
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