“…Further, Avio Aero, a major Italian company that designs, manufactures, and maintains civil and military aerospace subsystems and systems, has established a factory with more than 60 3D printers and two gas atomizers to produce in-house metal 3D printing powder [5]. The benefits of 3D printing aircraft components include low or zero waste [6], less environmental impact [7], possibility of local manufacturing [8,9], timely production (including just-in-time delivery) [10,11], higher specifications of the final product [12,13], and flexibility (such as increased production volume) [4,[14][15][16].…”