Friday, September 30, 2011
"3D printing: The world's first printed plane"
Human ingenuity is just absolutely amazing...
Paul Marks has the detail on this story at NewScientist.com:
"Under darkening skies on a grass airstrip in the UK's Wiltshire Downs, north of Stonehenge, I am watching half a dozen aeronautical engineers rushing to assemble an uncrewed aircraft before the weather takes a turn for the worse. They are hoping to show how 3D printing will revolutionise the economics of aircraft design – by flying the world's first fully "printed" plane"
