Rockwell B-1 Lancer bombers are seen in a boneyard at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI For decades, U.S ...

Ellsworth Air Force Base now has a quicker and more cost-effective way to repair panels on B-1s. It’s called cold spray technology. “We take fine metallic powder and we ramp it up with really high ...

Wear and tear on U.S. Army helicopters costs as much as $1 billion per decade, yet there was no way to prevent it -- until now. For more than a decade, the military has been committed to ongoing ...

ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. — Ellsworth's fleet of four-engine, swing-wing B-1 bombers continues to age, but a cutting-edge repair process may prove to be its fountain of youth. Cold spray, a ...

Printed headline: Cold Is Hot Additive metal technologies have received plenty of notice in recent years as processes to transform how aircraft parts are created, but repair methods also can benefit ...

A team of students and professors from South Dakota Mines assisted Air Force personnel in employing cold spray technology to repair a broken hinge tied to the fuselage of a B-1B Lancer. Cold spray, an ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Over 20 participants from across the Department of Defense, private industry and academia ...

Sierra Army Depot’s (SIAD) Metal Fabrication branch completed operator training on January 16, 2025, with their new VRC Dragonfly cold spray unit. This advanced capability enables Sierra to repair ...

“Cold spray” techniques additively build large-scale parts, repair components close to original state NISKAYUNA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A potential “fountain of youth” for metal, GE (NYSE:GE) ...

Cold spray coating is a solid‐state deposition process in which fine powders are accelerated to high velocities and directed onto substrates, forming dense, adherent coatings without melting the ...

The Australian Navy is researching cold spray, a form of additive manufacturing, to repair submarines. The tech blasts surfaces with tiny bits of metal at high speed, binding it to a surface. The ...

WASHINGTON, June 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Cold Spray Technology Market is valued at USD 1.2 Billion in 2022 and is projected to reach a value of USD 1.8 Billion by 2030 at a CAGR (Compound ...