3D printing gives Leonardo’s vertical takeoff and landing aircraft win
Italian company Leonardo has been working on its tiltrotor aircraft AW609 for some time now. 3D printing specialists CRP Technology has now produced a wind tunnel model on a scale of 1:8.5, bringing the aircraft closer to certification.
17 Feb 2019 David SchahinianShare
The vertical takeoff and landing aircraft has an eventful
According to CRP, it took just one day to set up the 3D printing jobs; four days later, the individual component parts, which on account of the loads in the wind tunnel need to be particularly robust, had been created. Windform, a carbon fiber-reinforced composite developed by CRP, was used here. The material’s properties include ultra-high dimensional stability when exposed to heat.
Leonardo is not, however, the only aerospace-smith currently working on civilian vertical takeoff aircraft. As
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