Alpha Industrial Parts Blogs

When discussing the important elements of an aircraft, most people will recognize the roles of wings, engines, landing gear, and other major structures that make flight possible. However, many regularly overlook the role of rivets and fasteners, those of which work to hold the entire vehicle and its systems together. For a modern aircraft, around 50% of the total parts consist of these fasteners, the Boeing 777 featuring nearly one million fasteners alone. With these averages, one may ask what roles rivets and fasteners play, as well as how aircraft remain light enough to fly with upwards of one million hardware pieces being present across structures. In this blog, we will discuss aviation rivets and fasteners in brief detail, allowing you to get a better understanding of their design elements that benefit flight.