The exchange of ideas is essential to everyone, regardless of his or her vocation or position. This exchange is usually carried on by oral or written word; but under some conditions, the use of these alone is impractical. The aviation industry discovered that it could not depend entirely upon written or spoken words for the exchange of ideas, because misunderstanding and misinterpretation arose frequently. A written description of an object can be changed in meaning just by misplacing a comma, and the meaning of an oral description can be completely changed by using a wrong word. To avoid these possible errors, drawings are used to describe objects. For this reason, drawing is the draftsman’s language.
Drawing, in the aviation industry, is a method of conveying ideas concerning the construction or assembly of objects. This is done with the help of lines, notes, abbreviations, and symbols. It is important that the aviation mechanic who is to make or assemble the object understands the meaning of the different lines, notes, abbreviations, and symbols that are used in a drawing.
- Aircraft Drawings
- Aircraft Drawings – Computer Graphics
- Purpose and Function of Aircraft Drawings
- Care and Use of Aircraft Drawings
- Types of Aircraft Drawings
- Aircraft Drawing Title Blocks
- Universal Numbering System
- Bill of Material
- Other Aircraft Drawing Data (Part One)
- Other Aircraft Drawing Data (Part Two)
- Aviation Drawings Methods of Illustration – Orthographic Projection
- Aviation Drawings Methods of Illustration – Detail View and Pictorial Drawings
- Aviation Drawings Methods of Illustration – Diagrams
- Aviation Drawings Methods of Illustration – Flowcharts
- Aviation Drawings – Lines and Their Meanings
- Aviation Drawings – Drawing Symbols
- Reading and Interpreting Aviation Drawings
- Drawing Aviation Sketches
- Aviation Graphs and Charts