A pressure bulkhead for a fuselage of an aircraft is configured for bounding a fuselage interior relative to an external environment. The pressure bulkhead includes a flat skin configured to span a cross-section of the fuselage and having a cavity disposed at a core region of the skin. The core region...
The Iron Ring is a symbolic ring worn by most Canadian engineers. The Ring is a symbol of both pride and humility for the engineering profession, and is always worn on the pinky of the dominant hand. In the United Kingdom the signet ring is traditionally worn on a gentleman's left fifth digit.
It is curious that this allusion to something small or tiny is indeed another sense of the word âpinkâ. Thus the use of pink or pinky for the little finger is quite accurate given the original sense of the word. This also clarifies the logic behind why the small finger is called a pinky. Moving forward, the Scots actually picked up the term from another European people, which are the Dutch.