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• 14 CFR Part 121 — Operating Requirements: Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental OperationsOpen
  14 CFR § 121.408 Training equipment other than flight simulation training devices.

  Training equipment other than flight simulation training devices. (a) The Administrator must approve training equipment used in a training program approved under this part and that functionally replicates aircraft equipment for the certificate holder and the crewmember duty or procedure ... Training equipment does not include FSTDs qualified under part 60 of this chapter. (b) The certificate holder must demonstrate that the training equipment described in paragraph (a) of this section, used to meet the training requirements of this subpart, meets…

• 14 CFR Part 91 — General Operating and Flight RulesOpen
  14 CFR § 91.213 Inoperative instruments and equipment.

  Inoperative instruments and equipment. either specifically or otherwise required by the airworthiness requirements under which the aircraft is type certificated and which are essential for safe operations under all operating conditions. (2) Instruments and equipment required by an airworthiness directive ... operable condition unless the airworthiness directive provides otherwise. (3) Instruments and equipment required for specific operations by this part. (c) A person authorized to use an approved Minimum Equipment List issued for a specific aircraft under subpart K of this…

• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Generalp. 7-36
  Chapter 7: Aircraft Materials, Hardware, & Processes › Aircraft Metals › Aircraft Hardware

  Aircraft Hardware Aircraft hardware is the term used to describe the various types of fasteners and miscellaneous small items used in the manufacture and repair of aircraft. The importance of aircraft hardware is often overlooked because of its small size ... however, the safe and efficient operation of any aircraft is greatly dependent upon the correct selection and use of aircraft hardware. An aircraft, even though made of the best materials and strongest parts, would be of doubtful value unless those…

• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Generalp. 7-51
  Chapter 7: Aircraft Materials, Hardware, & Processes › Aircraft Metals › Standards and Specifications

  fittings to various parts of the aircraft, and for fastening innumerable bracing members and other parts together. The rivet creates a bond that is at least as strong as the material being joined. Two of the major types of rivets ... used in aircraft are the common solid shank type, which must be driven using a bucking bar, and the special (blind) rivets, which may be installed where it is impossible to use a bucking bar. Aircraft rivets are not hardware…

• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Generalp. 7-29
  Chapter 7: Aircraft Materials, Hardware, & Processes › Aircraft Metals › Nonmetallic Aircraft Materials

  accomplished. Although cold-working reduces the ductility, it increases the tensile strength of the wire. In making seamless steel aircraft tubing, the tubing is cold drawn through a ring-shaped die with a mandrel or metal bar inside the tubing ... mandrel and affords a means of controlling the wall thickness and the inside and outside diameters. Nonmetallic Aircraft Materials The use of magnesium, plastic, fabric, and wood in aircraft construction has nearly disappeared since the mid-1950s. Aluminum has also…