Titanium is fantastically expensive, and difficult to fabricate, relative to other materials—meaning it was only ever practical to use on the world’s fastest plane. The SR-71 Blackbird was built from ...
According to Airbus, w-DED is increasingly being used at its factories and is helping the company progress to a more ...
Building the A-12 meant rewriting the rules of aerospace engineering. Lockheed’s Skunk Works constructed an entire secret base in Nevada, learned to machine brittle titanium, and even sourced the ...
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The CIA built a spy plane using Soviet titanium
The A-12 Archangel was designed to fly higher and faster than anything before it. That performance demanded huge amounts of titanium, a metal the United States didn’t have in sufficient supply. During ...
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Airbus Experiments With 3D Printing Aircraft Parts
New method allows for production of large structural components.
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