Can we really grow aircraft?

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July 8, 2016 | Originally published by Date Line: July 8 on

BAE systems and a professor at Glasgow University have revealed a way to really grow drones with an advanced form of chemical 3D printing. The news has already swept the mainstream news sites, even though this is little more than a theoretical exercise right now. Professor Lee Cronin, the man behind the concept, freely admits that he has a mountain to climb to turn this dream into a reality. The video, then, which depicts a pair of printer heads laying the absolute basics in a vat before the drone literally grows from almost nothing, is really a pipe dream right now.

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