> Rivets come in a great variety of styles and sizes
Very true. Anyone who has a Jane's Aircraft book from
the last couple of years, look up Northrop Grumman's
Joint STARS aircraft. It talks about how the aircraft
fleet was grounded due to the use of the wrong grade
of rivets (D instead of AD) on the skins. Yours truly
spent New Year's day that year calculating how high
the aircraft could fly without the skins popping off
so that they could deploy to Bosnia under a flight
altitude restriction.
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Ron Soave
"A Fool and His Money Can Throw One Hell of a Party"
1960 Bugeye
1972 BGT
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