When shopping for aerospace parts, you may come across ring terminals. Ring terminals aren’t restricted to the aerospace industry; you can find them in dozens of other industries. Nonetheless, most airplanes are manufactured with…
Have you heard of nutplates? They are commonly used in aerospace manufacturing applications. Airplanes, for instance, are often built with nutplates. Nutplates create permanent and fixed nuts that support a threaded bolt. For a…
Have you heard of locking wire? It’s used extensively in the aerospace and manufacturing industries to secure fasteners in place. Not all fasteners require locking wire. If a fastener is exposed to constant and/or…
When researching some of the different types of washers used in the aerospace industry, you may come across lock washers. They are fasteners used to distribute the load of a threaded bolt. Lock washers,…
Accounting for approximately 8% of the Earth’s crust, aluminum is the world’s third-most abundant metal. In 2016, global production of aluminum reached an all-time high of 58.8 million tons — and there’s no signs…
Hoses are commonly used in both automobiles and airplanes. Consisting of rubber tubes, they are designed to carry liquid — coolant, oil, etc. — to different parts. When connecting a hose to a part,…
Batteries are an important part of most airplanes. Even if an airplane has combustion jet engines, it will likely feature a set of batteries. The Boeing 747, for instance, is equipped with two batteries.…
Airplanes are complex vehicles that require many different parts to manufacture. Some reports, in fact, suggest that a typical Boeing 747 contains roughly 6 million parts. While some of these parts are structural panels,…
A lot of parts go into the construction of an airplane. A typical Boeing 747, for instance, has approximately 6 million parts. Of course, many of these parts are small. Most airplanes have thousands…
