How GE Will Laser Print Turboprop Engines

Two years ago, GE’s Business and General Aviation group announced a clean-sheet engine called the Advanced Turboprop or ATP. The engine will run later this year and GE is already building the manufacturing technology. In this AVweb video shot at NBAA-BACE 2017, GE’s Paul Corkery explains how many of the engine’s major components will be laser printed, potentially radically resetting manufacturing economics.