How GE Plans To Laser Print Turboprop Engines

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Key Takeaways:

  • GE developed the Advanced Turboprop (ATP) engine, announced two years prior and scheduled to run later this year.
  • Many of the ATP engine's major components will be manufactured using innovative laser printing technology.
  • This extensive use of additive manufacturing is expected to radically reset manufacturing economics.
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Two years ago, GE’s Business and General Aviation group announced a clean-sheet engine called the Advanced Turboprop or ATP. The engine will run later this year and GE is already building the manufacturing technology. In this AVweb video shot at NBAA-BACE 2017, GE’s Paul Corkery explains how many of the engine’s major components will be laser printed, potentially radically resetting manufacturing economics.

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