Sentences with phrase «printed aircraft engine»

GE, a leader in 3D - printed aircraft engine parts, said it had produced 50 % of the parts needed for a helicopter engine, slashing the number of parts required from 900 to just 16, reducing the weight by around 60 % and cutting the related costs by 40 %.

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Mazda just won the Edison Gold Award, beating an aircraft engine made with woven carbon fiber composites, ceramic matrix composites, and 3D printed parts.

The importance of the technology is already being seen at a number of large companies such as GE who have made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines, and Rolls - Royce announcing they will flight - test what it claims to be the largest 3D printed aerospace component to ever power an aircraft.

Aerospace and aircraft companies are increasingly moving to 3D printing to manufacture engine parts as well as some of the interior parts.