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**************************************************************************************************************************** I have 30+ years in my profession.
As a Supervisor and Chief of Metals Technology for the 9th Reconnaissance Wing I managed personnel and assets in the maintenance of SR-71 Blackbird, U-2 Dragonlady, KC-135Q Stratotanker, and T-38 Talon aircraft. My career experience involved supervisory machinist support on the following airframes and related support equipment, B-52G, B-52H, KC-135A, T-37, A-10, UH-1. I was twice PRP certified to work on nuclear weapons systems and routinely performed maintenance on live nuclear weapons and "cocked" nuclear weapons system assets and alert aircraft. I also worked for the Lockheed Martin Corporation as a Machinist / Welder maintaining UH-60 and CH-47 rotary wing aircraft in support of the US Army, 160th AVIM, Panama.
During the SR-71/ U-2 program my work Involved fabrication, modification, and emergency repairs, providing mission and launch support of aircraft and support equipment. As a team leader I provided all metal working operations using the latest advanced equipment and machine tools, metals processing and joining techniques as well as heat treating, electroplating, and testing. Responsibilities included work center management, training apprentices, designing and fabricating special tools, and fixtures, upgrading and improving procedures and technical publications for system components on the SR-71 Blackbird, the Worlds most advanced all titanium aircraft.
Our team reworked and improved the techniques for rebuilding the SR-71 propulsion system Inlets, Forward By-Pass Doors, the most critical system responsible for the high speed performance and safe operation of the SR-71 aircraft. The function of these inlet systems are unfathomable being capable of controlling 100,000 cubic feet of air per second.
The SR-71 Blackbirds set numerous World speed records flying at sustained speeds over 2200 miles per hour at over 85,000 feet in altitude. These records to this day have not been broken.
USAF- RETIRED- 1995
BLACKBIRD ASSOCIATION MEMBER  
I was employed as a Leadman Supervisor Machinist the production of Northern California's largest newspapers. This work entailed repairing, modifying, and maintaining numerous large, high speed printing presses for the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner.
I retired from the International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers Union in 2003.
I am currently semi-retired and enjoy metal working and fabrication in my own shop in the Northern California mountains. I specialize in repairing items made from exotic metals and hard to find items.  
  
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