Building and assembling a DIY aircraft

Aug. 1, 2013

CNC machines and 3D printers are now affordable consumer tools that are readily available for use at home or at a local maker-space and are great at saving time and money when manufacturing lots of parts with high accuracy and repeatability. A wing rib, when built by hand, could take three or four hours each; with a CNC, that time can be cut to as low as two to three minutes.

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