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    REACTing to the B-1B Lancer's first 3D printed metal part [Image 60 of 61]

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    A man wearing a blue polo shirt labeled 'Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex REACT - Reverse Engineering and Critical Tooling' and a white face mask holds up a small metal 3D-printed part in front of an industrial metal additive manufacturing machine. The machine's build chamber is open, revealing completed metal parts on the build platform inside. The setting appears to be a professional manufacturing or engineering laboratory.

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, OKLAHOMA, UNITED STATES

    05.04.2020

    Photo by Kelly White 

    72nd Air Base Wing

    Kyle Taylor holds the first metal 3D-printed part, a stainless steel avionics panel L-bracket, to be used on a flying aircraft, this one for the B-1B Lancer. Taylor is a metal additive manufacturing subject matter expert in the Reverse Engineering and Critical Tooling Lab and said that the lab saved $22,000 in production costs by producing the part in-house. (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)

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    Date Taken: 05.04.2020
    Date Posted: 06.10.2020 16:53
    Photo ID: 6210062
    VIRIN: 200504-F-RI777-3005
    Resolution: 3472x2512
    Size: 1.44 MB
    Location: TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, OKLAHOMA, US
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