It is a matter of stopping and refuelling, filling yourself up again before you lose all feeling.
The final irony is that Renault were lucky – if that's the right word – because had Felipe Massa and Ferrari not screwed up their refuelling stop, Alonso would never have made it to the top step of the podium.
When possible, land-based forward arming and refuelling points were set up to enable prompt operations.
In the past few days, American bombers heading for Afghanistan have flown through Turkish air space, and American transport aircraft have refuelled and picked up supplies at Incirlik, the NATO air base in south-eastern Turkey.
Quintana attacked as Froome refuelled and moved up to third overall, five minutes 32 seconds adrift.
So, setting up the infrastructure for refuelling them will be less of a problem.
The drones can hover above a target for up to forty hours before refuelling, and the precise video footage makes it much easier to identify targets.
In 1982, design genius Gordon Murray figured he could get away with starting the thirsty Brabham-BMW turbo on soft tyres and a light load of fuel, make a refuelling stop halfway through and, having built up a huge advantage, continue in the lead.
The helicopter unit, normally stationed at the Americal Division headquarters, at Chu Lai, had set up a special operations van and refuelling station at Landing Zone Dottie, the headquarters area (named after Colonel Barker's wife) for Task Force Barker, to increase the support it could provide for the task force.
Tesla showed off its upcoming battery swapping technology for the Model S electric vehicle last year, which would let users change out their battery rather than charging when on the road for a quick fill-up that's speedier than actually refuelling a standard car's gas tank.
