Technology|July 30, 2011 4:02 pm

3D-printed plane takes to the skies, sounds like a Black & Decker (video)

You know what’s appreciative about this cosmetic drone, in reserve from a actuality it flies? It took only a week to pattern as well as set up from scratch, interjection to a labor-saving wonders of 3D printing. Each member was shaped in ultra-thin layers by a laser lamp lerned upon a bed of tender element — possibly plastic, steel or titanium powder depending upon a compulsory part. If designers during a University of Southampton longed for to examination with elliptical wings, they simply printed them out. If they suspicion a sold code of WWII nose cone competence revoke drag, they pulpy Ctrl-P. And if they reckoned they could invent a wingless drifting steamroller… Er, as well late. Anyway, as a video after a mangle reveals, there’s never been a improved time for a work-shy to turn aeronautical engineers.

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