The bomb, nicknamed the "mother of all bombs, " is officially known as the Massive Ordnance Air Blast.
Sixteen-year-old Ben, who works for Hannifin, delights in demonstrating the Airzooka, literally an air cannon that sends a blast of air 20 feet or so.
On peak days in the summer, when suddenly everyone cranks up their air conditioners full blast, fossil fuel generators that can be fired up on a moment's notice will be needed into the foreseeable future, Legge says.
Along with jammers, troops use air surveillance, robots, blast-resistant vehicles and mine rollers as countermeasures.
After the radical blandness of her predecessor, Mr Christopher, Mrs Albright is a gale-force blast of fresh air.
But trust me when I say that no mountain blast of cold air managed to move his hair when I worked for him.
If you doubt me, come to midtown Manhattan during an August heat wave and feel the blast of hot air from vents on buildings and the street.
The Ministry of Interior said that police had come under attack from a hostile crowd and had fired warning shots in the air before firing the lethal blast.
Smart metering is part of an increasingly popular trend in energy efficiency called "demand response" in which customers voluntarily cut back on their power consumption during times of highest electricity demand, like the hottest days of summer, when air conditioners are running at full blast.
Notwithstanding the terrorist blast in Bali that hurt air traffic to the resort island, Asia remains the world's fastest-growing air traffic market.
To this day, I remember the stationary blast of sound that filled the air, even though the Falls were nowhere in sight.
By the end, nearly every fight was reduced to me launching my enemies up in the air and blowing them apart with a shotgun blast each as they remained suspended and helpless.
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Unlike conventional rockets that blast off from a pad, air-launched systems similar to the one Mr. Allen wants to put together are designed to deliver a broad range of satellites to space without the constraints of weather or optimal times and locations to try to reach specific orbits.
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Ms Brook described hearing three explosions on Pimlico Road, the most dramatic being the second blast, which saw flames erupt into the air.
Witnesses said the blast was triggered by neighborhood residents firing gunshots into the air celebrating the return of electricity to the area.
We had actually seen a blast about 15 minutes ago that was ... when the air raid sirens again went off.
That's partly the fault of the government, which prohibits amateurs from using explosives powerful enough to blast the nose cone free when the rocket is whistling through the air at supersonic speeds.
In the blast-oven heat that stifled much of the nation in recent days, the absence of air conditioning felt anguishing.
The blast was caused by fuel leaking into a dry bay and igniting on contact with a hot air pipe.
South Korea is using aircraft and ships to collect air samples to analyse for increased radiation - which could give an indication of details about Tuesday's blast, the Associated Press news agency reported.
The low-fare blast is squarely aimed at siphoning off traffic from United and other legacy airlines like AMR , Delta Air Lines , Continental Airlines , Northwest Airlines and US Airways Group as the industry starts its fall season slowdown.
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