Photo by Greg L. Davis | 72nd Air Base Wing | 10.31.2017
Aluminum shavings fly from a block being milled down by a Kearney and Trecker Vertical Turning Lathe, machine # 801047, inside Bldg. 9001, Oct. 31, 2017, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The skilled machinists and vintage machines like this VTL operated by the 553rd Composite Materiel Maintenance Squadron are making a repair piece for a slip-joint on large aircraft like the Kc-135......
Photo by Greg L. Davis | 72nd Air Base Wing | 10.31.2017
Machinist Manuel Leon, 548th Propulsion Maintenance Squadron, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, controls a hoist lifting the compression section of a jet engine and its rows of precision-ground blades inside ‘Big Blue,’ OC-ALC machine # OC10394, inside Bldg. 3001, Oct. 31, 2017, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Leon operates Big Blue, one of the most heavily used machines within OC-ALC,......
Photo by Greg L. Davis | 72nd Air Base Wing | 10.31.2017
Jet engine cores sit with protective covers in-line as they wait their turn for processing and by ‘Big Blue,’ OC-ALC machine # OC10394, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, Oct. 31, 2017, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Big Blue is operated by skilled machinists of the 548th Propulsion Maintenance Squadron to grind the engine blade tips to tolerances within the width of a sheet of paper.......
Photo by Greg L. Davis | 72nd Air Base Wing | 10.31.2017
Justin Salinas, 548th Propulsion Maintenance Squadron machinist, poses in front of a vintage LeBlonde industrial lathe which is over 60 years old at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Oct. 31, 2017. Vintage machines like this are used on a daily basis within the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex as part of OC-ALCs maintenance, repair and overhaul mission. (U.S. Air Force photo/Greg L. Davis)...
Photo by Greg L. Davis | 72nd Air Base Wing | 10.31.2017
Justin Salinas, 548th Propulsion Maintenance Squadron machinist, leans in to adjust a cutting-bit on a spinning TF33 engine ring held by the LeBlonde industrial lathe at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Oct. 31, 2017. Vintage machines like this are used on a daily basis within the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex as part of OC-ALCs maintenance, repair and overhaul mission. (U.S. Air Force......
