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Drilling is one of the most fundamental and widely used of machining operations. A single-engine fighter aircraft or a missile could need as many as a quarter of a million holes drilled. Yet drilling, for lack of understanding of the operation, is an art rather than a science. Consequently, drilling costs could be unnecessarily high without being noticed.
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Wu, S.M. (1985). Introduction to Part Four. In: King, R.I. (eds) Handbook of High-Speed Machining Technology. Chapman and Hall Advanced Industrial Technology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6421-4_9
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