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...crudely brilliant Starved (Thursdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), the drug of choice is food. The show has a Seinfeldian quartet--sarcastic New Yorkers, three guys and a gal--but their meeting place is a toughlove eating-disorder group. (Ironically, though, they also hang at a diner...
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...TROUBLESOME RAMP Most of the falling bits came from the so-called PAL ramp, a ridge of hand-sprayed foam designed to protect fuel lines from buffeting on takeoff ?EXTERNAL FUEL TANK The tank, 154 ft. (47 m) tall and 27.6 ft. (8.4 m) wide, carries 535,000 gal. (2 million liters) of frigid liquid oxygen and hydrogen fuel. It is covered by polyurethane-like foam that keeps the fuel cool, prevents ice from forming on the exterior and protects the tank from overheating during launch...
...morning on the 9th, we gathered at the Bockscar, and [Major Charles] Sweeney [the pilot] and the flight engineer ran through the preflight tests. The engineer discovered that the transfer pumps, which transfer gasoline from the reserve tank into the main tanks, weren't working. There was 600 gal. of gasoline there, but we wouldn't have access to it. But Tibbets told him, "You don't need that gas, so there's no reason to delay this...
...still didn't get an answer. Finally, he called the tower and said, "We're going to land!" We touched down about halfway up the runway and came to a screaming halt right at the end. Later, we ran tests on the gas tanks. We had about 35 gal. of usable fuel. And 35 gal.-as far as a B-29 is concerned-is immaterial. We were essentially...