On the negative side, tensile and fatigue strengths of rivets are lower than comparable-diameter bolts and machine screws with nuts, though tensile strength for …-in.-diameter blind rivets can ...

Van's Aircraft has opened orders for the wing kits of its new high-wing design, the RV-15. Deliveries are set to begin before ...

Eastwood's new solid rivet kit contains all the components required to drive AN470 (round head) rivets in both 1/8- and 3/16-inch diameter. Included are: professional pneumatic rivet gun, 1/8- and ...

A decade ahead of the type's expected retirement from service, the Boeing RC-135V/W Rivet Joint remains a critical electronic ...

George Seabrook Wing, a self-taught aeronautical engineer who invented the fasteners used in virtually all aircraft flying today, died on Tuesday in Torrance, Calif. He was 74. Mr. Wing, born in Ke… ...