Members of the Airlines 4 America Engineering Maintenance Materiel Council (EMMC) meet at the Air Force Sustainment Center at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City to collaborate with their military contemporaries. Here Lt Gen Lee Levy, Commander AFSC welcomes the group.
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Lt Gen Lee Levy, Commander Air Force Sustainment Center, addresses the technical leadership of the U.S. commercial airlines in a meeting at Tinker AFB. Levy expresses his desire for all sides to work toward the U.S. maintaining its leadership as an aerospace nation.
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The KC 135 Stratotanker undergoes MRO at the Oklahoma City Air Logistic Complex at Tinker AFB. The KC 135 program celebrated its 60th anniversary two years ago.
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Notice the missing tail on this KC 153 Stratotanker. That is because the hangar was built in 1942 and no one envisioned the need for buildings to accommodate much larger aircraft than were in use at the time. As a result, the tails must be removed to bring the aircraft in for maintenance and then reinstalled when work is completed.
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Mechanics tinker with engines on the stand at Tinker AFB, OK.
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Military engines wrapped up and ready to go at Tinker AFB, OK
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An engineer at the Reverse Engineering and Critical Tooling (REACT) lab at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex at Tinker, AFB uses a laser devise to determine the precise shape and geometry of a solid structure and digitize that form for possible recreation using additive manufacturing.
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An additively manufactured shape recreated at the Reverse Engineering and Critical Tooling (REACT) lab at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex. Naturally it was made to include the REACT logo.
