Along with metal that does reflect light and color, they incorporate for contrast gently curving sheets of carbon fiber, less
like airplane parts than oversized bicycle sheets.
Three - dimensional printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has been around since the 1980s, but only recently has the technology become sophisticated enough to make complex objects
like airplane parts.
Not exact matches
Carbon's printers are already being used to manufacture a huge range of items, including car and
airplane parts, props for Hollywood studios and, most famously, the lattice -
like midsole in Adidas» Futurecraft 4D sneakers.
Sensors can be placed in a
part of a structure that doesn't have easy access,
like the inside of an
airplane wing, or even embedded in concrete.
A system
like theirs could someday be
part of self - healing
airplane wings or spaceship components that include composite materials made of multiple constituents.
How could anyone not
like at least some
part of
Airplane!?
«Burden has conceived [the installation] as a «factory -
like» assembly line which will manufacture rubber band - powered model
airplanes from tissue paper, plastic, and balsa wood
parts.
Verticalseat features an array of
parts and objects of our daily life, which Yngve Holen has transformed into artworks: fences that protect gated communities, autobus and scooter headlights, facades of CT scanners,
airplane windows, and finally a Porsche Panamera luxury car cut in 4 pieces
like a cake.
Perhaps most famously Ms. Rubins is known for building sculptures out of salvaged
airplane parts,
like an installation in 1995 for the Museum of Modern Art in New York that weighed nearly 10,000 pounds.
Those of us involved in that research are motivated entirely by concern over the suffering of humans and non-humans alike due to climate change, and we think there is sufficient cause for alarm about the future to do the research into the idea of putting something
like sulfate (not a significant
part of aircraft exhaust) into the stratosphere (higher than the
airplanes you see making contrails).