3-D Printing Enables UVA Student-Built Unmanned Plane

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 21, 2012 @04:39AM from the up-in-the-air-junior-birdman dept.

In an effort that took four months and $2000, instead of the quarter million dollars and two years they estimate it would have using conventional design methods, a group of University of Virginia engineering students has built and flown an airplane of parts created on a 3-D printer. The plane is 6.5 feet in wingspan, and cruises at 45 mph. I only wish this had been sponsored by Estes or Makerbot rather than the MITRE Corporation; it would be great for every high school or hobbyist group that can scrape together the printing time to have one of these on demand. (HT to Gaël Duval.)

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Different headline by similar_name · 2012-10-21 05:00 · Score: 4, Funny

3-D Printing Enables UVA student-built UAV
Re:The engine... by Tough+Love · 2012-10-21 07:05 · Score: 3, Funny

I wonder who modded this +1 interesting, informative when it really deserves -1, melts.

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