Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Investigators believe that the short occurred either in a fan used to stir supercooled oxygen in the tank, or in wiring leading to the fan. In the presence of pure oxygen, the short could have ignited insulation, wires, or even the aluminum parts within the tank. The resulting heat would have produced the pressure that burst the tank. Though NASA may never learn the exact cause of the accident, it has ordered numerous small design changes to prevent any recurrence of an oxygen-tank explosion; the fan will be removed, wiring will be changed and aluminum structures inside the tank...
...probably the result of a defect in one of the two double-walled oxygen tanks. Under the extremes of pressure (920 lbs. per sq. in.) and temperature (-297° F.) inside the tanks, they say, a fragment of metal-perhaps a rivet or a piece from an internal cooling fan-could have flaked off. As this chip sheared away, there may have been a spark or another kind of combustion, Dr. Rocco Petrone, director of the Apollo program, told Congress at week's end. The additional heat would have caused the oxygen to expand, and perhaps build up pressure...
...shit has hit the fan...
Erma does her writing in a tiny room, her electric typewriter near a mink-lined bucket stuffed with fan (and not-so-fan) letters. Some ask for recipes; though cooking is not her forte, she answers every request. "I lie a lot," she admits. "I grab a magazine, find a recipe and say, This is an old family favorite.' " When it comes to criticism, she thinks that her husband Bill is overly frank. But, in fact, she is her own toughest judge, seldom satisfied with what she writes and rewrites. "But on the days that you click," she says...
Merilee passed through a momentary impulse to cover the steak platter and fan away the odor of flesh, which would be offensive to the nostrils of the Master...