Passenger aircraft construction. Here the upper panel of an Airbus passenger plane fuselage is being held in the jig of an automatic riveting machine.
Passenger aircraft construction. Here the upper panel of an Airbus passenger plane fuselage is being held in the jig of an automatic riveting machine. This machine is precision-programmed to locate the axis by means of a video camera, and then to drill and install the rivet in exactly the right place. The machine is capable of repeating this process 16,000 times in just a few hours. Photographed at EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company), Hamburg, Germany.
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Photo credit: © PATRICK LANDMANN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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