rivet
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In a letter addressed to leaders of the Senate, Homendy said the door plug which failed had been opened so rivet repair work could be done in September last year.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2024
Deal told employees of another quality lapse found on about 50 fuselages built by Spirit: Two rivet holes on a window frame “may not have been drilled exactly to our requirements,” Deal wrote.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024
She cannot recall all the details from the work, but she remembers climbing into the hollow end of a wing and helping rivet it from the inside, her body wedged between the layers of metal.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023
"We will be removing some 1,200 of these one by one," says site manager Mika Hakkarainen, holding up a rivet.
From Reuters • Jul. 3, 2023
But just then a rivet came whistling through the air.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
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