Fig. 1.21 Boeing 787 Dreamliner commercial airplane. Courtesy of The Boeing Company More

Fig. 1.26 Boeing 787 Dreamliner commercial airplane. Source: The Boeing Company More

Fig. 1.6 High-speed machined avionics rack. Courtesy of The Boeing Company More

Fig. 1.13 Ti-6Al-4V engine nacelle component for the Boeing 757 aircraft. (a) Part as previously fabricated required 41 detail parts and more than 200 fasteners. (b) Superplastically formed part is formed from a single sheet. Courtesy of Metal Bellows Division of Parker Bertea Aerospace Group More

Fig. 1.20 Typical fighter aircraft composite applications. Courtesy of The Boeing Company More

Fig. 17 Boeing wedge test (ASTM D 3762). (a) Test specimen. (b) Typical crack propagation behavior at 49 °C (120 °F) and 100% relative humidity. a , distance from load point to initial crack tip; Δ a , growth during exposure. Source: Ref 4 More

Fig. 1.2 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 accident in Hawaii. The headline is a recreation of one that appeared in a Newsweek article about the accident ( Ref 1.6 ). Photo source: Associated Press Wide World Photos. Reproduced with permission More

Fig. 51 Boeing 757-2008 truck beam failure occurring on Icelandic Air, aircraft registration TF-FIJ. More

Fig. 52 Schematic of the assembly of a Boeing 757 main landing gear showing the location of fracture More

Fig. 53 Fracture surface of Boeing 757 main landing gear truck beam on Icelandic Air aircraft TF-FIJ More

Fig. 33.13 Foil-fiber-foil fabrication process. Top photo, courtesy of The Boeing Company; bottom image, HIP, hot isostatic pressing; T, temperature; P, pressure. Source: Ref 2 More

FIG. 8.14 The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and nearly all of the 300,000 aircraft built during World War II used Alcoa’s 24S alloy. More

FIG. 9.10 The Boeing 777 is the first commercial plane to use a titanium alloy (Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al) for landing gear. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Altair78. More

FIG. 10.26 The Boeing 747 used single-crystal jet engine blades to replace the directionally solidified blades. Source: Boeing. More

Fig. 6.12 Bottom skin of the front cargo hold of the Boeing 747 aircraft, retrieved from the ocean. Source: Ref 11 More

Fig. 11.4 Aircraft end frame. (a) Boeing 737 horizontal tail rib machined from an extruded profile. The part is approximately 9.0 in. wide. (b) Width cross section of extrusion used for the machined part. The improvement in material utilization compared with plate was 36%. Source: R. Pahl More

Fig. 15.10 Titanium use on the Boeing 777 accounts for approximately 15% of its gross empty weight. More

Fig. 15.11 Titanium (Ti-15-3) nut clips for the Boeing 777. More than 9,000 (approximately half of the 18,000 used per plane) of these clips are used on the floor structure alone. More

Fig. 15.12 Beta-21S applications for the nacelle on the Boeing 777, with Pratt & Whitney engines More

Fig. 15.13 Titanium alloys compose up to 20% of the gross empty weight of the Boeing 787. More