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General Electric 3D-Prints a Working Jet Engine

posted by takyon on Saturday May 16 2015, @02:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the print-me-a-fusion-reactor dept.

kaszz writes:

GE Aviation's Additive Development Center near Cincinnati has produced a number of firsts but they are now demonstrating a working 3D-printed jet engine for an RC-sized model. The engine turns at 550 rotations per second and is made entirely from metal 3D-printed parts. They used the same EOS M270 3D printer that they use to produce the first and only FAA flight-approved 3D-printed hardware, a T25 pressure and temperature sensor for use in GE90 jumbo jet engines.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday May 16 2015, @02:58AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday May 16 2015, @02:58AM (#183638) Homepage Journal

    As an amateur telescope maker, I know how to use a lathe and milling machine. I've always been puzzled as to what the advantage of 3-D printing is.

    Just this morning I remembered that shortly after Tsutomu Shimomura started working at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he submitted a drawing to the machine shop, the specified a seamless, hollow metal sphere.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @03:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @03:27AM (#183644)

    People have been casting hollow metal shapes for thousands of years, but when all you have is a 3-D printer, all your projects look like 3-D printing projects! History never happened. Reinvent everything.

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday May 16 2015, @03:52AM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday May 16 2015, @03:52AM (#183649) Homepage Journal

      yeah I know how to cast a hollow sphere but can you do it with a close tolerance?

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      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @04:02AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @04:02AM (#183653)

        Nope, simply not possible using any human technology. Contact the aliens who built Stonehenge and ask if they want to do some contract work.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 17 2015, @12:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 17 2015, @12:12AM (#183874)

    Just this morning I remembered that shortly after Tsutomu Shimomura started working

    japboy japboy mitnick owns jOo japboy. Mitnicks kung fu is stronger than japboy. Fuck you wrecking hardware with your shitty assembly code japboy!