NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, UNITED STATES, October 31, 2023 /EINPresswire / -- A rivet is a metal pin having a“formed head” at one end and a“shop head” on other. Two types of rivets are used in aircrafts: ...

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 ...

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 the UK ahead ...

LONDON—One of the UK’s three RC-135 Rivet Joint signals intelligence aircraft has been upgraded with a new cockpit as part of a modernization of the fleet. The Royal Air Force is preparing to return ...

A Rivet Joint RC-135V aircraft on the tarmac at Offutt Air Force Base. Todd Clark, a retired Rivet Joint pilot, runs the two RC-135 cockpit simulators, which are about 10 years old and in use up to 12 ...

How do you keep an airplane that's bumping 60 years old looking good? “Send it to the gym every day. We are the gym," said Master Sgt. Billy Cliff, aircraft structural supervisor with Barksdale Air ...