He punched the emergency jettison button, and the tank dropped like a bomb, splashing unseen into the ocean.
Once enough oxidizer leaked out and the air pressure inside the tank dropped, the missile would collapse, the remaining oxidizer would come into contact with the rocket fuel, and the missile would explode.
"When the tank drops, it remains attached to the vehicle only by the fuel filler hose and/or supply lines, or in rare instances, by the skid plate, if present," agency investigators wrote in a report posted on its Web site.
"When the tank drops, it remains attached to the vehicle only by the fuel filler hose and/or supply lines, or in rare instances, by the skid plate, if present," investigators wrote in their report posted on the agency's Web site in May.
Iraq also produced evidence that it had field-tested germs in sprayers, rockets, artillery shells, aerial bombs and tanks dropped from jet fighters.
After reporting its fourth-quarter earnings, Pandora's shares promptly tanked, dropping more than 17% after falling short of analyst expectations.
You couldn't hear a tank drop.
To better understand what happens inside the flotation tank, I dropped $100 to experience an hour of senselessness at Lift/Next Level Floats, in trendy Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
In one incident, Donnelly alleged, he narrowly escaped serious injury when a full-size replica first world war tank was dropped "intentionally" on his legs.
And so, when Anthony Cordesman, a foreign policy dignitary in this town's think tank circuit, dropped an article on Wednesday headlined "Israel as a Strategic Liability," he made sure to open with a plethora of qualifications.
On January 13 , 1992 the Washington Times reported, Word is dribbling out of the CATO Institute that Charles Koch, the oil billionaire whose bucks have helped keep CATO's thinkers in the tank, has dropped off the board of directors.
