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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
My gig was always tooling.
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I did tooling also. I started off in MGSE for Spacelab for about 9 years, but in later life designed all of the tooling for the GMD Payload Avionics Module (booster avionics module + kill vehicle) integration. I did all of this tooling design to Boeing tooling drawing standards (like the multi-detail, 12-zone drawing formats, tool use instructions, etc.). I have some of those drawings also...
Notes like welding per D33028-1, tool use instruction placards per D33181-27...
Crazy.
I started with McDonnell Douglas on May 8, 1989 and worked as a design engineer on:
Spacelab
International Space Station (Node 1 and a bunch of misc stuff like the ill-fated Spares Warehouse)
Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD)
Avenger
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense
Advanced Tactical Laser
SLAM-RAAM
High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator
Plus miscellaneous projects like satellites, etc. I was the lead engineer on a thing called the LMC. A payload carrier designed to use wasted space at the back of the payload bay. It was unique in that it did not use a keel trunnion. It's the white structure spanning the back of the payload bay in this pic:
