deltaecho

For Oiche.

Some background.
As some of you know, when I'm not getting paid to blow things up, I go back to my Bruce Wayne style public image of being an avionics engineer. One of the process areas (we call them shops) is called Peen and Blasting.

Now, I've been in the aviation game for a while, and knew about this process on certain parts, but it amused the hell out of me when I joined this company just under a year ago and heard the name "peen shop" mentioned for the first time. It still makes me chuckle.
In the Peen Shop are giant multi million dollar peening machines and peening equipment, all operated by people known as (you couldn't make this shit up), "peeners". Being a peener takes a bit of training, but it requires more patience, skill and an eye for detail than anything hugely academic. Peeners are quite proud of their work, and rightly so.
They can also be very competitive, as I've noticed from things like this...



Like any true, dedicated professional, they're always on call...



The job can also be fraught with danger it seems...



Some of them even have electronic enhancements...



What goes in...



Must come out (violently most likely)...



I wish everything came with instructions as simple as this...



So let's hear it for peeners everywhere! You all know you're jealous of such a title.
Incidentally, the job titles of the two people in charge of the area are the Lead Peener and the Peen Supervisor. Aviation is such a weird industry...


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