Creo Customers: Military Helicopters Stay Airborne

By Geoff Hedges | Published: June 17, 2011

In the action movies, military helicopters are the stars of all the airborne excitement. We see them swerve around tall buildings in chases, swoop in to deliver or rescue troops in inhospitable terrain, and, sometimes, even take a dramatic hit from ground fire. What we never see, however, are the guys who come along later, laptops at their side, to fix the battered machines—guys like Troy Moser.  

In real life, military helicopters ferry troops, project power, drop off supplies, carry out medical evacuations, and serve numerous other purposes. And, in real life, they can take on some damage. When that happens, teams come in to repair and modify the helicopters in the field—since it’s impractical to send aircraft back to the manufacturer.

Troy Moser is a project engineer on one such action field team. For him, fixing military helicopters means working with the original design data, documenting and driving ECOs, and capturing revised design data in field. That’s where the laptop—and Creo—come in.

While you’re not likely to see the field repair team in the final scenes of your favourite summer blockbuster, their work is in many ways far more fascinating—especially if you’re interested in manufacturing and engineering. Find out more about Moser, his role, and how Creo running on his laptop is helping him repair and upgrade aircraft in Afghanistan and Iraq.

 Image courtesy of U.S. Air Force, Lance Cheung