Next time you’re in an airplane, think about what the airplane is made out of. Because someday, that airplane is going to be made of parts from a 3D printer. GE is working on making the parts based on ...

When you think of unconventional aircraft, flying wings have had plenty of time in the sun over the last few decades. With striking designs like the B-2 Spirit and F-117A Nighthawk on the flight line, ...

People are increasingly turning to software to design complex material structures like airplane wings and medical implants. But as design models become more capable, our fabrication techniques haven't ...

Airbus is targeting sometime beyond 2020 to be able to fabricate an airplane wing using additive manufacturing. EADS (Airbus) has large-scale structures grown from ALM-enabled (additive layer ...

[Updated with video, below] We already know that 3D-printing has revolutionized the way we can make everyday objects from Lego pieces, to guitars, and from car bodies to artificial livers. But the ...

But there’s a persistent problem: the parts that come out of a 3D printer don’t always match the elegant digital models ...