Originally Posted by
fltlt
Take the Additive mindset out for a moment. This has to do more with design and manufacture for purpose and cost, airframe only.
That could, and I do stress could change, although as you point out, additive and in fact the whole promise of 3D printing is still a somewhat look at me.
Scale of production is not manhour nor size of facilities dependent.
You could have 1000 printers under one roof or 4 under 250 roofs or any combination thereof. If one needs to manufacture on the other side of the country/world, relatively (there's that word again) cost effective.
Just my tuppence.
There are other issues on the logistics side, but nothing that is a show stopper.
Right ok, with you.
My argument isn't could you do it necessarily...because, as you say, you can set up however many you like and can buy or get access to. It's more, why would you do it?