Power of the press

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Senior Airman Kirbie Delmo adjusts a radial drill press to align holes on manufacturing plates for an F-16 Fighting Falcon flap. Delmo is an aircraft metal technologies specialist with the 388th Equipment Maintenance Squadron. Workers in the aircraft metal technologies section manufacture, rework and weld aircraft and support equipment parts such as engine or aerospace ground equipment parts. The specialists make parts that cannot be ordered -- a press of the item is brought to them, and they create it. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nakita Carlisle)