3D printed aviation components
3D Printing News Briefs, August 3, 2022: Army Aircraft, Nano Copper Inks, & More
Kicking things off in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs is a story focused on aviation, as two 3D printed cargo links represent the first U.S. Army-developed metallic 3D printed aircraft…
3D Printing News Briefs: February 9, 2018
We’re starting off your Friday edition of 3D Printing News Briefs with some 3D printing business news, then moving on to some pretty cool 3D printed projects to get you…
French Aviation Company Uses Stratasys 3D Printers to Create Better Aircraft Components
French aircraft design and manufacturing group Latécoère recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, and over the last century has become a leader in aerostructures and interconnection systems, holding multiple distinctions: the company is…
FIT AG Begins Joint Venture to Open Up the Additive Manufacturing Market in Russia
Back in 2015, Germany-based FIT AG invested €20 million to build a new dedicated facility in its home country, which was finally inaugurated this summer. Two years later, the company established a…
3D Printing in Aviation at Paris Air Show: Stratasys Among Companies Looking Up in Additive Manufacturing
From June 19 to 25, visitors and exhibitors from the aviation industry will gather in Paris for the International Paris Air Show. Among those exhibitors will be Stratasys, which knows…
First 3D Printed Primary Flight Control Hydraulic Component Flies the Friendly Skies on an Airbus A380 Aircraft
More and more, we are hearing about how 3D printing technology is being used to manufacture parts and components for aircraft. Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS 3D printed a spoiler actuator valve…
Norsk Titanium Produces First FAA-Approved 3D Printed Structural Titanium Commercial Airplane Components for Boeing Dreamliner
When a company develops a unique technology, it’s understandable that they should want to keep it closely guarded, particularly in this digital era. Norsk Titanium has been developing their Rapid…
First Certified 3D Printed Aircraft Interior Component of the MENA Region is Ready to Fly
Just two months ago, Siemens AG and Strata Manufacturing PJSC signed a partnership with Etihad Airways, the second largest airline in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to expand 3D printing technology…
Nano Dimension Receives Grant to Develop Ceramic Inkjet 3D Printing Technology
It seems as though we’ve been anticipating the official release of Nano Dimension’s electronic circuit board 3D printer, the DragonFly 2020, for a long time. The Israeli company announced that they had…
Partnership Between Siemens, Strata and Etihad Brings 3D Printed Aircraft Components to the Middle East and North Africa
As 3D printing – especially metal 3D printing – advances, we’re starting to see the technology used much more extensively in the aviation industry. The most well-known example is probably…
Bionic Aircraft Collaborative Research Project Works to Increase the Efficiency of Aviation Resources through Additive Manufacturing
3D printing and 3D scanning technologies have been making major headway into aviation recently, and these uses are only set to expand. We have seen 3D printed airplanes before, used…
Mecaer Aviation Group Goes from 3D Printed Concept Models to Production Components with Help from a Roboze One+400
While 3D printing has made huge impacts on manufacturing, many companies have only relied on it for prototyping parts, turning instead to more traditional manufacturing methods for final components. That’s…
GE Aviation Conducts First Test of 3D Printed Advanced Turboprop Engine Components
GE has been in the news quite a bit lately for business reasons. Their acquisitions of major 3D printing companies, as well as their proposed acquisitions and failed acquisitions, have…
GE & Textron Aviation Announce Next Generation Cessna Denali, Featuring 3D Printed Engine
We’ve been following GE in a zigzag around the map as they’ve opened facilities from a smart factory in Chakan, India to their latest $40 million Center for Additive Technology Advancement in Pittsburgh….
