3D printers

This is what I will need in my next stage...

http://www.desktopfactory.com/

Well that is one of many companies creating what is called 3D printers. The idea is create all the necessary pieces for the Firefly using straight 3D imaging to material methods.

I cannot afford the infrastructure of the Pentagon or Boeing... man intensive production units are not only elaborate and expensive but prone to countless delays and errors, like the 787 ordeal shows.

If something can be printed out of metal with a tolerance of a few microns, then all issues of fitting components to each other and creating extremely hardened structures using common raw materials is possible.

For the cylindrical tanks for example the constraints only go in one direction, so creating a vacuum separated layered tank with a bone like structure between the layers is a sure way to replicate titanium strength/lightness at a fraction of the costs.

3D modelling/simulation and 3D printers are the cornerstone of the project... they can be as instrumental as IM can be in reducing need for meetings and an overbearing management.

In a sense let Mind rule over Matter.