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World's first 'printed' airplane takes to the skies

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ZDNet: Emerging Tech; By Chris Jablonski 		Mail this story
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In a sign that the 3D printing industry is taking off, the world’s first ‘printed’ aircraft has soared the skies over UK’s Wiltshire Downs, north of Stonehenge. Engineers at the University of Southampton have developed an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) whose entire structure has been printed, including wings, integral control surfaces and access hatches.

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