The world's first
3D-printed aircraft THOR on display in the Airbus booth at the International
Aerospace Exhibition in Schoenefeld near Berlin, on 1 June, 2016
Dwarfed by huge jets all
around, the mini-plane Thor was nonetheless an eye-catcher at the Berlin air
show this week—the small Airbus marvel is the world's first 3D-printed
aircraft.
Windowless, weighing in
at just 21 kilos (46 pounds) and less than four metres (13 feet) long, the
drone Thor—short for "Test of High-tech Objectives in
Reality"—resembles a large, white model airplane.
Yet to the European
aerospace giant Airbus, the small pilotless propeller aircraft is a pioneer
that offers a taste of things to come—an aviation future when 3D printing
technology promises to save time, fuel and money.
"This is a test of
what's possible with 3D printing technology," said Detlev Konigorski, who
was in charge of developing Thor for Airbus, speaking at the International
Aerospace Exhibition and Air Show at Berlin's southern Schoenefeld airport.
"We want to see if we can speed up the development process by using 3D printing not just for individual parts but for an entire system."In Thor, the only parts that are not printed from a substance called polyamide are the electrical elements.
The little plane "flies beautifully, it is very stable," said its chief engineer Gunnar Haase, who conducted Thor's inaugural flight last November near the northern German city of Hamburg.
Lighter, faster, cheaper
The sky is not the limit for the technology—engineers also plan to use it in space.
Source: phys.org
Source: phys.org
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