Glenn House and his colleagues spent more than four years making a new toilet for the B-1 Lancer. The challenge wasn’t fitting the john into the cockpit (it went behind the front left seat), but ...

The U.S. Air Force has 3D-printed its first metal part for a jet engine. The replacement part, made for the engine that powers the B-52 Stratofortress bomber, will keep the plane flying until new ...

The U.S. Air Force certified its first piece of equipment to be 3D printing for its aircraft—a toilet seat cover. Many of the U.S. Air Force's aging planes have a tough time finding replacement parts, ...

Additive manufacturing and computer design experts, the Air Force needs your ideas. As part of a national effort to harness the speed and flexibility of additive manufacturing — often called “3D ...

An F-22 under maintenance. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw) The Air Force’s fleet of F-22 jets has a maintenance problem. Given the “small fleet size” — there are just 195 of the Lockheed ...