island life wrote:
Thanks DD. Just spent 4 hours on a gazelle with a roll of patterning
paper and masking tape. I'll digitize it tomorrow. I'm not looking
forward to the rest. I'll look up CATIA, never used it. IL

You'll be very hard pressed to find actual CATIA engineering models of
existing helicopters. If you do find the need to work with 3d geometry
though, try out Rhino (which can open CATIA files). CATIA is
prohibitively expensive for most humans and overkill for your purposes.


jc