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Airplanes Are Getting Lighter Thanks to 3-D-Printed Parts

By: Mike Orcutt
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
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Metal 3-D printing, which has been around for decades, is finally coming into its own as a genuine mass manufacturing technology: Sales of machines that print metal objects have risen rapidly as manufacturers, especially in the aerospace industry, gear up for commercial production of additively made parts they’ve been developing for years.

"Airplanes Are Getting Lighter Thanks to 3-D-Printed Parts" is from technologyreview.com, published on April 18, 2016.

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