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How the redesign of a plane wing-tip has saved 95 million tonnes of CO2

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 21, 2019

Aviation Partners’ super economical Split Scimitar Winglet The next time you have a window seat on a flight, check out…

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Protolabs boosts its additive manufacturing with new materials

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 23, 2019

Inconel 718 has been added to Protolabs’ materials list Protolabs’ growing range of metals available for its direct metal laser…

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ARC and Link3D announce partnership to enable AM standards compliance

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 2, 2019

ARC is designing the next generation of rocket engines Link3D has announced its partnership with Additive Rocket Corporation (ARC), a…

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Ansys partners with Airbus for autonomous flight

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 20, 2019

Airbus Defence and Space will be using Ansys SCADE tools to help develop future UAVs Just days after Ansys hooked…

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Brazilian small aircraft company takes ‘absolute control’ of development with Siemens software

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 21, 2019

Octans Aircraft is using a swathe of Siemens software for the product development and testing process Having invested $20 million…

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3D Printing

Boom Supersonic is 3D printing flight hardware with Velo3D’s additive metals technology

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 24, 2019

Boom Supersonic, the company building history’s fastest supersonic passenger airliner featured in our hallowed pages back in 2017, has partnered…

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Sandvik moves deeper into AM with purchase of BeamIT stake

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 15, 2019

It might have little over 20 3D printers installed around the world, but materials, engineering and tooling company Sandvik has…

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3D Printing

Sigma Labs PrintRite3D gets Airbus interest

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 1, 2019

Under the Airbus’ Test and Evaluation program, Sigma Labs has announced it will provide the aerospace giant with its PrintRite3D…

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APWORKS moves to the UK for certified aerospace additive manufacturing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 14, 2019

APWORKS has previously looked at the potential of metals AM, now it is looking to certify aerospace components APWORKS, a…

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Analytical Graphics and Ansys partner to shoot missiles out of the sky

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 15, 2019

To engineer the US military’s next-generation missile defence system, Analytical Graphics and Ansys are incorporating high-fidelity, multiphysics simulations with multi-domain…

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