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hunter

(39,992 posts)

6. I spent a summer making the little latches that hold up the oxygen masks in airliners.

Reply to Aviation Pro (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 01:52 PM

Sep 21

Thankfully we rotated through the stations -- the stamp presses, the lathes, and some assembly -- which kept the work from being unbearably monotonous.

Quality control was intense and safety protocols strict.

It was not a job for the careless.

I came out of that with a great respect for my high school metal shop teacher who had seemed absurdly demanding to a class full of clueless fourteen and fifteen year old boys.

Yeah, shop was a boys-only class then.