Engineers Harvest and Print Parts for New Breed of Aircraft
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It’s more an engineer’s dream than nightmare – to rapidly prototype and redesign aircraft using 3-D printed parts. That’s just what a team of student interns and engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, got to do: custom-build aircraft by repurposing surplus Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Grafting fuselages side-by-side adds more motors, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/engineers-harvest-and-print-parts-for-new-breed-of-aircraft-60899/
It’s more an engineer’s dream than nightmare – to rapidly prototype and redesign aircraft using 3-D printed parts. That’s just what a team of student interns and engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, got to do: custom-build aircraft by repurposing surplus Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Grafting fuselages side-by-side adds more motors, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/engineers-harvest-and-print-parts-for-new-breed-of-aircraft-60899/