Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by akiselev 1280 days ago
It doesn’t look like they printed the rotors. It’s hard to find real concrete info but it looks like they added cavities to other parts of the engine for active cooling and/or increased strength to weight, which is more of a well explored topic (I remember watching a rocket engine test in Mojave with a hollow cryocooled aluminum nozzle in the late 2000s).

The rotors are still made using those fancy 5-axis CNCs - I think either Boeing or GE still have a shop in LA that makes them.