Re: Machine Shop

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:07:13 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:03:18 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>

And yet AFBs and Navy ships do indeed have machine shops.
Some minimal, some quite impressively extensive.
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Oh and they need not be 'best equipped' everywhere. USAF has
airplanes!

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Why USAF has their own machine shops:
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"Boeing machinists go on strike after rejecting contract"
<https://www.npr.org/2024/09/13/nx-s1-5110310/boeing-machinists-union-strike>

US Air Force and Army fabrication shops.

"U.S. Air Force Fabrication Flight"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymlcry9Hd9Y>
"Air Force maintainers are dedicated to keeping planes in service as
long as possible. Air Force Staff Sgt. Anthony Kuhn tells us about one
flight of Airmen that is ready to repair of construct new parts for
any aircraft."

More on the 380th Fabrication Flight:
<https://www.afcent.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/501237/fabrication-flight-details-multi-faceted-mission/>
"The Airmen of the 380th Maintenance Squadron's Fabrication Flight
pride themselves on being able to repair all structural damage to
380th Air Expeditionary Wing aircraft."

"U.S. Army Machine Shop @ Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyiIkb4pfls>  (2:37)
"This is a package of a fabrication shop (machine shop) located at
Kandahar Airfield Afghanistan that uses allied trades specialists (MOS
91E) to fabricate essential parts and make repairs to help support the
B-Company 563rd Aviation Support Battalion 1-5-9th Combat Aviation
Brigade out of Fort Campbell, Ky."





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