[Ozark Tom]

There is a fairly recent development in the extraction of titanium which will drastically lower the cost of raw material. Forming the metal to a finished form has been a challenge.
Powdered material can be incrementally layered by a laser deposition process to form objects. Components manufactured by such a process often shed a tenth or more in weight relative to standard machining processes.

[mrsmith]

Thanks
Just Ten years ago this was all siliness...