{"id":520,"date":"2015-05-12T19:07:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2019-04-10T20:06:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:06:47","slug":"ge-aviation-3d-printed-simple-jet-engine-capable-hitting-33000-rpm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/ge-aviation-3d-printed-simple-jet-engine-capable-hitting-33000-rpm\/","title":{"rendered":"GE Aviation 3D-Printed a Simple Jet Engine Capable of Hitting 33,000 RPM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at GE Aviation\u2019s Additive Development Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, recently took the company&#8217;s additive manufacturing technology to a new level by 3D-printing a working, simple jet engine capable of hitting 33,000 RPM.<\/p>\n<p>GE Aviation utilizes an additive manufacturing process that features a laser to melt layer after layer of metal powder until eventually a custom part is created.<\/p>\n<p>This process ensures strong metal parts are made, with potential applications in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, some 3D-printed parts have already been approved for use in planes by the FAA. Crazy stuff, right!?<\/p>\n<p>The miniature jet engine GE built is merely a modified version of one you\u2019d find in an RC model plane.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this knowledge, the engine is being describe as simple when compared to the jet engines powering modern airliners.<\/p>\n<p>However, the engine represents what many in aerospace and other industries hope 3D-printing can eventually become, which is an intricate part of modern manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W6A4-AKICQU\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at GE Aviation\u2019s Additive Development Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, recently took the company&#8217;s additive manufacturing technology to a new level by 3D-printing a working, simple jet engine capable of hitting 33,000 RPM. GE Aviation utilizes an additive manufacturing process that features a laser to melt layer after layer of metal powder until eventually a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[331,332,329,330],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}