Perhaps not surprisingly, Crane dropped out of Syracuse a few days later.
Curiosity's landing – "sky crane" dropped Mars rover from a hovering platform.
Yesterday morning a small crane dropped the first few participants on to Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth and began the live, single-player version of Big Brother that is Antony Gormley's latest art project, One & Other.
A number of accidents (or "accidents") have beset the collider — a magnet collapsed, pipes were contaminated by soot, and a technician was killed when a crane dropped its load.
He swore that he would "terminate" special interests, used a broom to illustrate how he would "clean house" in Sacramento, and, as a crane dropped a giant weight onto an Oldsmobile Cutlass and crushed it, shouted, "Hasta la vista, car tax!" He largely avoided political reporters, but he made good use of right-wing talk radio, the entertainment press, and interviews on shows like "Oprah".
There are an estimated 85,000 Syrians stranded on the Jordanian border who can only access aid via crane drop offs, and on the Turkish border a concrete wall is being built, with razor wire and watch towers containing automatic machine guns that will shoot – based on sensors – when they see movement.
The air holds a tangy but not unpleasant metallic essence, and is periodically rent with the shriek of shattering steel, heard over a thudding backbeat of mangled appliances that the cranes drop into piles — food for a nearby shredder.
At the enormous oil sand strip mine, shovel cranes drop 100-ton loads of sand into 400-ton dump trucks.
Working with the train the hole is no sooner finished than the borer has moved up the line and its place has been taken by a crane which drops a steel support into it.
