At 10:30 a.m. a drill consisting of lowering a lifeboat with crew members aboard began.
Initially, engineers had hoped the Plan A drill would cover about 20 meters a day.
Already a drill sergeant from Aberdeen has been sentenced to prison for up to 25 years.
Plan A involves using a drill placed directly above the shelter where the miners are holed up.
But they did see concentric grooves left by what they think was a drill with a tiny stone bit.
Because it's not, as he said, it's not a drill and I think again from the state level from the federal level.
Students said that the principal ordered everyone to stay in their classrooms, but many thought it was just a drill.
In its Fruta del Norte site a drill core showed a rich 32 troy ounces of gold per ton of rock.
The incision was thinner and cleaner than one made with a drill.
He also morphed personally--from a drill sergeant fab manager to industry visionary.
Moreover, the laser, which resembles a dental drill in shape, can do things a dentist would never do with a drill, like cut gums.
Sections of a drill which broke through the roof of a rail tunnel came from a construction site above the ground, accident investigators have found.
This drill will be used, engineers say, for the so-called plan B, as a parallel attempt to a drill a rescue shaft down to the miners.
Rescue workers told CNN mid-morning Friday that the Plan A drill has cut 41 meters into the rock between early Tuesday morning and late Thursday night.
Every employee is trained to do every job, and they're free to fix their own problems--without waiting hours for a specialist to replace a drill bit, for instance.
Ambrose inquires about a drill, and before long we find ourselves at the local machine shop with half the village crowding around to watch the blond girl redrill her heelpiece.
"If women can just make an accusation and bring a drill sergeant down, that gives a lot of power to women and trainees, " said Frank Spinner, one of Simpson's attorneys.
With each new well, new tools are being developed to deal with the intense pressures and temperatures involved with controlling a drill bit that is 6 miles into the earth.
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He states they announced a drill was going on.
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This is a drill, repeat, this is a drill.
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As the truck was entering the bridge, its load -- which Rudeen described as an equipment casing form for a drill rig -- hit a support girder, causing the bridge to collapse.
The inquest heard Mr Balkwell had been working in a lorry which had broken down - and was using a drill to try to remove the concrete inside when he became trapped.
It's been 10 years in the making for Woodman, 37, who started the company in 2002 and built the first camera prototypes in his bedroom with his mom's sewing machine and a drill.
The hero, Swofford himself (Jake Gyllenhaal), gets pounded by officers, first by a drill instructor and then by the sergeant (Jamie Foxx) who heads his special Marine unit, and hazed by his buddies.
Afterwards I told him a story about me trying to accomplish something with a butter knife and how much simpler the task was when someone brought me a drill and I used it instead.
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He asked his players if they wanted to work hard enough to beat their teammates in a drill, or if they wanted to work hard enough to be the best team in the country.
Using Linux-based servers working in parallel, they generate a computer model of how a drill bit must twist and turn to hit one or more formations as much as 9, 000 meters below the sea floor.
The Plan A drill -- a mining drill -- reached 148 meters (486 feet), but the hole it was drilling would still need to be widened to 70 centimeters (27.5 inches) to accommodate the rescue capsule.
Curiosity will use a drill and scoop, which are located at the end of its robotic arm, to gather soil and powdered samples of rock interiors, then sieve and parcel out these samples into the rover's analytical laboratory instruments.
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