Word: tiling
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...pilot circled the house and got into position. Two para-rescue jumpers (PJs), the Air Force?s elite operators trained to go behind enemy lines and extract downed pilots, strapped into a hoist and descended to the slippery tile roof, aiming for the chimney which crumbled under their weight. The PJs chopped through the roof and went inside, surprised to find all eight people squatting in Edna's apartment. They hoisted them out one by one. Edna's mother, Flora, came up with her walker. Her friend Mary came up with her cane. None of them brought anything more than...
...factory floor at Asia Tile, in Surabaya, Indonesia, about 650km from Jakarta, is not a very happy or productive place these days. Earlier this summer, the company sent a quarter of its 2,700 employees packing, and employees fear another round of layoffs may be imminent. The reason, says Bambang Wicayo, the company's technical manager, is no mystery: skyrocketing oil prices have increased the cost of bringing in raw materials and delivering goods, while higher natural gas prices make it more expensive to fire the kilns that produce tiles. "If the price of gas continues...
...with remote cameras. And while the dislodged foam caused much consternation at the space agency, Discovery had the least loss of foam when compared to the other shuttle launches. Still, the first-ever space walk to the underside of the shuttle was deemed necessary to pull cloth from between tiles, again to err on the side of caution. And despite the smaller amount of foam debris hits, NASA admits that the largest chunk to fall could have been equally disastrous had it hit the shuttle's wing or a heat-shielding tile elsewhere on the craft...
...ROBOTIC ARM Discovery is equipped with a new 50-ft. (15.2-m) robotic arm that will reach out from the cargo bay to take infrared pictures of the orbiter at very close range, looking for potential problem areas ?THE PATCH KIT Discovery's astronauts will test a tile-repair technique using a sort of paste--but not, unless absolutely necessary, on damaged tiles...
...shuttle's wings--and the atmosphere surrounding them--could heat to as much as 3000ºF (1650ºC). Any chink in the shuttle's heat-resistant armor could allow superheated air to penetrate unprotected areas, where it would act like a blowtorch--the same process that destroyed Columbia ?TILE DAMAGE One gouge is close to the wheel well, where an influx of hot gases could cause an explosion