General Electric this week revealed that it has completed a multi-year project to print a working jet engine. The engine, small enough to fit in a backpack, was built by a team of technicians, ...

Slowly but surely, the wonder that is 3D printing is taking over the manufacturing world. Generally depicted as additive manufacturing, the method has a number of advantages over traditional processes ...

It might not be enough to power a real jet, but this mini engine could certainly be the first step to a new method of manufacturing full-size ones. A team of engineers at GE have not only successfully ...