Case Study: AirMotive Specialties achieves faster, more accurate vintage aircraft restoration with MecSoft Corporation's RhinoCAM

AirMotive Specialties - Customer Case Study

Airmotive Specialties, a company specializing in the restoration of vintage aircraft like the P51 Mustang, faced significant challenges in recreating complex components. Without original digital designs, they relied on physical parts and old microfilm drawings, making the process of hand-forming parts like skin panels extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive. The vendor, MecSoft Corporation, provided their RhinoCAM CAD/CAM software to help modernize this process.

By implementing MecSoft's RhinoCAM, Airmotive was able to reverse engineer parts and create precision toolpaths for their CNC router. This allowed them to machine forming dies, which are used to press aluminum skins with greater accuracy. The solution drastically reduced the time to create parts from an entire day to a fraction of the time, resulting in lower man-hour costs, higher quality, and the ability to complete major projects on time and on budget.

Airmotive Specialties

Dave Teeters

Airmotive Specialties