Look at this photo of a Boeing 737 engine:
It is probably that they don't want a straight line that might peel open like a zipper.
It's probably a camera angle thing. Boeing doesn't make the engines anyway and over the years with overhauls and such, who knows who's work you're looking at. It could be a Rolls Royce engine. Does RR make them by hand?
A slightly random layout will reduce the chances of some sort of vibration starting up in response to (for example) engine vibration at a particular frequency.
I don't suppose this is the reason but it's the excuse I use when I end up with fixings like this! :-)
I think it is deliberate too. We do not know what it attached to under those particular rivets and it may be a joint.
Ah, like you don't put screws in line in wood incase of a split? Well in that case they aren't far enough off the line.
Bollocks, look again.
But we're looking at part of the plane bodywork, the engine is inside.
Probably, it's British, we don't do robots yet.
The cover ring is not symetrical .. it's bigger at the bottom John T.
James Wilkinson Sword posted for all of us...
I'm sure the rivets are exactly where the designers want them. Many considerations under the skin.
If the rivets were made in Glasgow the plane will crash .......
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 20:20:13 +0000, Chris Green coalesced the vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful comprehension...
When I was at school we visited an aircraft factory a possible career path. I only remember two things, one was a cordoned off area where we were told a secret process was undertaken, something to do with putting a honeycomb texture into an alloy, and the other was a guy on a pair of step ladders drilling into a fuselage with a power drill "freehand" with no apparent plan or measure.
If it was an Airbust you could understand it ......
Indeed it is. That would explain the two lines of dots not being parallel. But I'm talking about the wiggle as you follow the forwardmost line of dots.
It might account for the two lines not being parallel, but not for the wiggle along the forwardmost line.
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end to the engine) are not in a straight line! A machine would have the= m perfectly aligned.
The forwardmost line randomly wiggles about.
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never mind....
Bet it is.
But you don?t have robots making yours.
The only possible reference I can think of is the Titanic, and that was Irish.
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end to the engine) are not in a straight line! A machine would have th= em perfectly aligned.
The forwardmost line of rivets is not straight, at all.
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