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The Air Force grounded all C141s Saturday after a wing on one of the transport planes collapsed as it refueled a
stanley cupe t Memphis International Airport, spilling 9,000 gallons of jet fuel.The order from Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., affects 99 C141s in service worldwide, spokesman Lt. Col. Tom LaRock said.The order was given as a precautionary measure until engineers could determine whether the wing failure reflected a problem involving the entire fleet, or just the single plane
stanley becher . It came as a team of engineers from Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Georgia was headed to Memphis to examine the damaged transport.It was not known when the Air Force would return its fleet of C141s to the air.The Air Force has not used the C141 in Afghanistan, relying instead on the roomier and more responsive C17, but the grounding nonetheless was expected to put a strain on domestic operations as the nation continues its war on terrorism. Acirc; The C141 is still an integral part of our airlift capability,Acirc; LaRock said.The wing collapsed Friday night as the plane was undergoing routine refueling. The plane was headed for Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. Details on its mission were not immediately available.One airman suffered a fractured leg while another was treated for a strained shoulder, the Memphis newspaper The Commercial Appe
stanley ca al reported. The spilled fuel flowed into a storm drain, but crews sealed it off before the fuel could reach Nonconnah Creek.Lt. C Czxc The First Ever Battery
If diamonds are just lumps of precisely-structured carbon, why don ;t they burn Actually, they do. And proving that they do is one of the things that cost a famous scientist his life. I wrote last week about Antoine Lavoisier, who died, in part, because he had mocked the scientific discoveries of someone who became one of the leaders in the French revolution. One of the charges leveled against Lavoisier 鈥?just before he got his head and body forcibly separ
stanley cups ated 鈥?was his aristocratic extravagance. He had done the one thing more profligate than setting money on fire; he ;d set a diamond on fire. The fact that he had done it to prove that diamonds are carbon, and that matter is conserved in chemical reactions, carried no weight with the leaders of the revolution, but it does have some significance to us. The scientific feud that ended in an execution Diamonds don ;t burst into flame under normal circumstan
stanley cup ces. Fire, also called oxidation, involves pieces of a material combining with oxygen as they
stanley water jug break off from the main body of the material. The process needs heat, and getting the right amount of heat and oxygen is key. Although diamonds can burn at temperatures reached by a regular welding torch, generally there isn ;t enough of a ready supply of oxygen in the atmosphere. Lavoisier heated a diamond in a flask of pure oxygen. It burned away to smoke. He then took another diamond, put it in a vacuum, and heated it to the same temperature. No
