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Author John Connolly
Source Time Compression Technologies. v6 n8 Oct., 2001, pp 26(3)
Abstract Although computer-based engineering is the mainstay of today's aircraft industry, it still can contain some bottlenecks because the conventional way of making airplane parts has inherent drawbacks. However, Raytheon Aircraft Company thinks it may have solved that problem with a new jet airplane design and a quicker, streamlined assembly system utilizing several RP processes. Raytheon Aircraft's new jet, the Premier I, has fewer than half of the parts of its predecessors and costs 25 percent less to construct when compared with similar aircraft in the industry. Using composite construction, the Premier I's fuselage is built by far fewer people in much less time than using conventional aircraft construction methods. Stereolithography was used in making molds for castings and machined parts to reduce time and costs in development. For one critical large casting, stereolithography shortened the time from 10 months - using traditional methods - to just two months using rapid prototyping methods.XX
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