[Jeff Higgins]

When I started my career at Boeing in 1980, I caught the tail end of model making with the sort of "buck" as shown in this video. By the time I retired, I was very deep into the CNC machining of models we developed in a 3D CAD program (Dassault's CATIA, Computer Aided Three Dimensional Applications). I went from making models by hand as an apprentice level tool maker, building bucks as shown and then sweeping plaster over them to establish the final contour, to being a company wide "subject matter expert" (when I finished my degree and became a tooling engineer) in complex compound contour surface modeling in CATIA. I lived and worked the broad scope of development shown in this video from beginning to end, so I find this to be exceptionally cool to see. I know just what they have gone through to get where they are today.