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I believe Graphalloy bushings are conductive. Plastics can be reinforced with conductive fibers. Metallic alloys such as Nitronic 50...

Also note that the wing loading tests are simulating the uniform loading of lift (which is why they are so complex). A runway landing...

The follow-up claims that the 787 wing was never tested to failure while the 777 was. Ok, the 777 wing visibly broke but I would think...

You SHOULD install the valve so that the lever is parallel to the pipe when the valve is open. It does not matter if this is up, down...

Having a lot of right stick would be a contributing explanation of how the wing failed with only 850 ft/m sink rate in the fuselage.

Belzona has a plate bonding procedure that resembles this exactly. The product they use is 5811. They did a video about it on their...

One would think that with all of the bird flu going around that there would be fewer birds. I do have a question, are propeller driven...

I apologize, I was being facetious. I know that bronze pumps are very tolerant of most water conditions. I'm not familiar with API 610...

There are inorganic zinc/aluminum flake products that are far superior to zinc chromate for corrosion resistance. An example trade name...

Which API class specifies bronze?

Pre-delivery cracks? That sounds really bad. They're cracking before any loading or exposure occurs.

The trouble with fusible parts is that they have to be designed to fail near normal operating loads which makes them unreliable and...

Is wildfire normal or not normal in the region?

GM made electric cars before and wrote the manual... That is such an anti-innovation statement.

Just a thought, it feels as if Southwest is the reason the USA as such a good flight safety record currently. I fly a lot of SW and from...