At 8 57, over Arizona and New Mexico, temperatures on the surfaces of the left wing dropped "off scale".
It should have been a simple finish for Richard Haughton but somehow the wing dropped the ball as he dived over.
There was more bad news for the head coach, Stuart Lancaster, when Marland Yarde, the promising London Irish wing, dropped out of contention for a return to the starting line-up.
The reconstructed phase maps shown in Fig. 10a, b are unphysical, because in both cases the phase shift inside the wing drops below the phase shift in the empty area.
Over the entire month, the wing dropped more than 1,200 tons of bombs and flew in excess of 1,400 sorties.
In the middle of the month the wing dropped 120 tons of bombs on Balikpapan's oil fields and surrounding areas, as well as coastal defence sites.
Launched in 1918 from a dolly, it was designed to fly for a fixed length of time, then switch off its engine and jettison its wings, dropping a load of 180 pounds of explosives on its target.
The bird occasionally took flight, its six-and-a-half-foot wings dropping everyone to the floor; when a crew member brought Carell a Diet Coke and touched the can to his back, Carell, mistaking it for the scavenger's beak, folded into a death crouch.
Today planes hardly ever fail - I can't think of a [recent] accident caused by engines failing or wings dropping off".
