Especially if the airplane has a motor, this has a huge potential impact on weight. For this reason, [gzumwalt] embarked on his own self-imposed challenge to build an engine with the smallest ...

Build an aircraft engine with 3D printing instead of traditional manufacturing ... Much of the designing is done in computer models. And while engineers fresh out of school might be tech-savvy, ...

You can do a lot with 3D printing—even create a working model jet engine ... tasked his students with building their engine parts within real aircraft tolerances. That meant that all the ...

Everyone loves talking about 3D printing, but now it’s really hitting the big time: Rolls-Royce has decided that it’s going to use the technology to help make its airplane engines. While the ...

A 3D-printed model of the GE T901 engine hangs from its sling awaiting ... which is set to power the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft as well as AH-64 Apache and UH-60 Black ...

According to AP wires, computing researchers at Perdue and Princeton have developed new search engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional objects, like airplane parts or architectural ...