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November 29, 2013
General Electric starts 3D printing jet engine parts
This seems like a big effing deal
...on the hunt for ways to build more than 85,000 fuel nozzles for its new Leap jet engines, is making a big investment in 3D printing. Usually the nozzles are assembled from 20 different parts. Also known as additive manufacturing, 3D printing can create the units in one metal piece, through a successive layering of materials. The process is more efficient and can be used to create designs that can’t be made using traditional techniques, GE says. The finished product is stronger and lighter than those made on the assembly line...
Tangentially related...
Boeing plans to spend $27B over 30 years on producing titanium airplane parts in Russia. ...The parts produced by UBM are finish-machined by Boeing at its Gresham, Ore., plant.
Just over a year ago Boeing said it expects to has budgeted $27 billion for Russian-sourced titanium, aerospace design-engineering services, and other services and materials over the coming 30 years...