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Michelin and i really in particular of the manufacturing tires were historical cars that michelin even makes them for pre-war models and that they were ready for cars made after the late nineteenth fifties. classic cars tend to stand in the carriage longer than modern cars which are driven regularly and that poses special challenges regarding time as an expert has advice been would you like he would lift a classic car up a little if possible take the weight off the tires for now many car makers offer a rounded tire cushions which supports the tires so they won't get flat spots on the bottom is...

Thing turns. >> if both engines go out, and it depends how quickly they go out in terms of a turn or remaining straight, but how long can the plane just basically glide for? >> david can correct me on this, but it's going to reach its own natural stability. in this airplane, it's electronic stability. it's an airplane, it's going to fly even if it doesn't have power. that's what it is meant to do. >> if one engine goes out, it naturally finds its own center. say the right engine goes out, that wing will reach a flat spot and create more lift than this one. so that weight is underneath the cent...

Mark burnett you were the lead helicopter pilot. you're trying to bring a basket over there to get her. what was the terrain like? a 2x3 foot ledge? how does she get to such a perilous spot? >> well, i don't know how she got there. but, that area was steep. and the footing was very poor. it's lucky she did find a flat spot to get to. from my standpoint as one of the pilots on the aircraft, a teamwork effort. we can't do what we do up front without the eyes and expertise going on on the ground and in the aircraft as a whole. so, it's a matter of holding position by some references that were giv...

The country's imagination again. >> liftoff of the atlas 5 with curiosity. >> 154 million-miles from earth, nasa stuck the landing. the one-ton rover sits inside a crater on the planet mars. sending back the first images and ready coconduct scientist tests in the next two years over the viability of life. >> it's now on the surface of the red platote to answer questions whether the life existed on mars. >> this looks like by my eyeball we landed in a nice flat spot. >> beautiful. really beautiful. >> successful landing couldn't come at a better time for nasa, at president obama 2013 budget pro...

Can see that it looks like it's going to well, to whatever degree that's of any value, why didn't this stack cap exist on april 19th, sitting on a dock or in a rig somewhere, you know, just in case? >> well, that's where i've just worn a flat spot in the middle of my forehead from banging my head on the desk, because this is one of the first things they talked about on the first week of the blowout. of doing a cap. all these components in this stack are all standard cameron components that could be built very quickly. i don't understand why it took 2 1/2 months to set this, and that's what's r...