Laser Treatment Helps Form 747 Wing
Credit: Metal improvement
When Boeing's first 747-8 Freighter is delivered it will be lifted into flight on wings shaped and made stronger by laser shot peening. The process grew out of Star Wars-era research by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and, over the past decade, has found its way into aviation, most...
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