<p> Researchers have successfully built and flown an unmanned aerial vehicle, using 3-D printing technology.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Engineering students from the University of Virginia posted a YouTube video of a plastic turbofan engine they had designed and built using 3-D printing technology.<br /><br />Executives at Mitre Corporation, a McLean-based defence contractor, saw the video and sent an announcement to the School of Engineering and Applied Science that they were looking for two summer interns to work on a new project involving 3-D printing. <br /><br />Only one student, Steven Easter, then a third-year mechanical engineering major, responded to the job announcement. Easter got the assignment to build over the summer an unmanned aerial vehicle, using 3-D printing technology. <br /></p>
<p> Researchers have successfully built and flown an unmanned aerial vehicle, using 3-D printing technology.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Engineering students from the University of Virginia posted a YouTube video of a plastic turbofan engine they had designed and built using 3-D printing technology.<br /><br />Executives at Mitre Corporation, a McLean-based defence contractor, saw the video and sent an announcement to the School of Engineering and Applied Science that they were looking for two summer interns to work on a new project involving 3-D printing. <br /><br />Only one student, Steven Easter, then a third-year mechanical engineering major, responded to the job announcement. Easter got the assignment to build over the summer an unmanned aerial vehicle, using 3-D printing technology. <br /></p>