Saturday, July 22, 2006
Plane made of printed parts flies
A plane made almost entirely out of "printed" parts flew last weekend at an airshow in Britain. It was made by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works in Palmdale, CA, and is a 28m unmanned vehicle made of radar-absorbing composites.
Link (via Futurismic)
About 90 per cent of Polecat is made of composite materials with much of that material made by rapid prototyping."The entire Polecat airframe was constructed using low-cost rapid prototyping materials and methods," says Frank Mauro, director of UAV systems at the Skunk Works.
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