Zenith Aircraft and Pull Type Rivets

"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk at wow way d0t com wrote in message
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"Andrew" wrote in message
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I have an aeronautical engineer friend retired from McDonnell
Douglas who once was in charge of the Harrier project for the U.S.
team. I respect his opinion which is that pull type, "pop" rivets are
only used on aircraft where a bucked rivet could not possibly be used
or on non-critical, low stress applications.

That opinion is not shared by everyone. Now, you can't willy nilly replace
bucked rivets with pop rivets, but there are examples of aircraft designed
for pop rivets. The T-18 is an example. It would be hard to argue that
John Thorpe didn'd know what he was doing, eh?


OOPS. - that's John Thorp without the "e". I guess I "improved" the
spelling....

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