stackyFACTSNext time you hit turbulence, just pray the glue holds. The Boeing 747 is essentially a giant aluminum jigsaw puzzle physically clamped together by roughly six million individual metal rivets. There is no magic force field holding the aircraft together—just a ridiculous amount of tiny screws and engineering hubris.
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