Watch the new Goodyear blimp being built A new Goodyear blimp is being built inside the Wingfoot Lake hangar in Suffield, Ohio. Longerons and cross sections are made of aluminum and composite materials. These are the pieces that make up the frame. Ballonets are inflatable airbags within the structure that maintain pressure and affect trim […]
How It’s Made Steel Forgings
Icing wind tunnel to study ice on wings and turbine blades
From somewhere back behind the Iowa State University Icing Research Tunnel, Ames, Rye Waldman called out to see if Hui Hu was ready for a spray of cold water. The wind tunnel was down to 10°F.
3D Printing Design Contest
Harvest Technologies, Belton, Tex., announced their first design contest in hopes to further promote rapid manufacturing and help grow a 3D printing community online.
Last call for 2014 U.S. nanotechnology survey
The not-for-profit National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS), Ann Arbor, Mich., partnered with the National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, Va., under the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) to conduct its fourth study of trends in nanotechnology and nanofabrication.


