WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Commercial airliners have up to a million rivets, some of which are unavoidably created with imperfections that make them more susceptible to corrosion, leading to cracks that ...

Pictured here: RIVET JOINT Landing at RAF Waddington FIRST BRITISH RIVET JOINT AIRCRAFT DELIVERED TO THE UK The first three RIVET JOINT signals intelligence aircraft has been delivered to ...

We’re used to hearing stuff and seeing images of fighter aircraft and bombers, but reconnaissance aircraft are much more discreet, and they don’t come out into the open all that often. Like, say, ...

Riveting remains a cornerstone of aircraft structural assembly, providing a robust and reliable means of joining sheet-metal components in fuselage skins, wing panels and internal frames. The ...