FTA:

Ultrasound gun shows a hidden crack leading from the top drill hole (Image: EADS)

** DELAMINATE! DELAMINAAAAAATE! **

FTFY

Nah. Now if they were making sonic weapons he'd turn it into a banana grove, after the reactors went critical.

Does it have red settings?

/The Doctor has left the Library
//River Song has been saved

Headline: Ultrasonic screwdriver to make plastic planes safer

Article: an ultrasonic camera gun with which ramp engineers can scan CFRP airplane
           Ultrasound gun shows a hidden crack

So...

Headline: grabs your attention, if you are a geek, but has little to do with the article

My brain had great difficulty parsing the top image in that article. Couldn't decide whether the clouds or the blue was the remaining tail or actual sky.

ArcadianRefugee: Headline: Ultrasonic screwdriver to make plastic planes safer

Article: an ultrasonic camera gun with which ramp engineers can scan CFRP airplane
           Ultrasound gun shows a hidden crack

So...

Headline: grabs your attention, if you are a geek, but has little to do with the article

It's a sonic probe, not a screwdriver. But we all love that raggedy man too much to call it what it is.

I just got a sonic screwdriver for xmas, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/you have to use a Phillips screwdriver to put the batteries in it

loser0: I just got a sonic screwdriver for xmas, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/you have to use a Phillips screwdriver to put the batteries in it

Which one?

/I bought myself 11's as a birthday present earlier this year.
//Want to get Pertwee's and Bakers.

11's, but 10 is on the instructions.

/I keep 4's in the car, to check pressure

Works for my planes.

Lunatic Calm: My brain had great difficulty parsing the top image in that article. Couldn't decide whether the clouds or the blue was the remaining tail or actual sky.

Same here, doubly so since im on my cell. didn't figure it out till I noticed the rivets.

/csb: I got my girlfriend river song's journal for xmas. Apparently it was from the doctor who booth at comicon; she loved it.

/yay nerdmas!

meh. i just want an allen key that wont strip out the 2mm heads on the screws in my rc truck!

It's an ultrasound?

I guess we now know who looks at a screwdriver and says "Ooh, this could be a little more sonic"?

Must have been bored or had a cabinet to put up.

Kazran, trust me. It's this or go into your room and design a new kind of screwdriver. Don't make my mistakes.

The author writes about tap testing like it's the only current way of detecting barely visible damage (BVID), delaminations or disbonds, completely ignoring that the industry moved on to pulse-echo and through-transmission ultrasonic NDI decades ago. This "ultrasonic screwdriver" is nothing more than a 3D pulse-echo A-scan. Still cool though.

qgmonkey: The author writes about tap testing like it's the only current way of detecting barely visible damage (BVID), delaminations or disbonds, completely ignoring that the industry moved on to pulse-echo and through-transmission ultrasonic NDI decades ago. This "ultrasonic screwdriver" is nothing more than a 3D pulse-echo A-scan. Still cool though.