3D printing has proven its efficiency in the aerospace industry, and a recent milestone confirms that there are still many interesting applications to explore. This small metal component is no ...

While the maritime industry puzzles over just how the United States plans to revive its moribund merchant shipbuilding capacity, one shipyard is creating its own processes. Defense contractor HII ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced Tuesday that it has successfully used additive manufacturing for the first time to build a valve manifold assembly for a new construction aircraft carrier at ...

When 3D printers first started becoming mainstream, no one would’ve thought that people would 3D print aircraft components out of all things. However, it actually happened. Wuhan, China, is at the ...

Engineers at MIT have taken a metal that usually trades strength for lightness and pushed it into an entirely new class, ...

The Utah Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiative (UAMMI) and ElectraFly, an aviation company building personal flying vehicles, are teaming up to create 3D printed carbon fiber aircraft parts ...

A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter flies overhead at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. (Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/U.S. Defense Department) WASHINGTON — Boeing plans to begin testing a full 3D-printed ...

HII has announced that shipbuilders at its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division have successfully installed the first valve manifold assembly created by 3D Printing (additive manufacturing) on a ...

For a long time fixed wing VTOL drones were tricky to work with, but with the availability of open source flight control and autopilot software this has changed. To make experimentation even easier, ...

A plane crashed after a 3D-printed part softened and collapsed, causing its engine to lose power, a report has found. The Cozy Mk IV light aircraft was destroyed after its plastic air induction elbow, ...