Richard Myers estimated Tuesday, in an afternoon briefing to reporters, that the first hours of the air operation resulted in an "85 percent" success rate, and had effectively cleared away most fixed, ground-based threats to U.S. aircraft.
The ocean overlaps one end of the plank and the other end is fixed to the ground (the interior of the tectonic plate).
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Down below, the workmen had prepared a metal net, which was fixed to the ground with long nails, all around the space where the crane was slowly lowering its load.
Data are also streaming in from other sources: remote sensors operating as fixed sentries, sensors on ground vehicles and sensors on the equipment that soldiers carry around with them (some have cameras on their helmets).
As for the fixed assets (like the building and the ground), those will probably have a lower value than stated on the balance sheet.
Jones added sensors that, by monitoring the air temperature above and below the heli ten times a second, can keep the chopper at a fixed altitude with more accuracy than a human on the ground can.
Cruise missiles and jet fighters work against fixed targets, concentrations of forces or heavy weapons on open ground.
Unlike many large fixed-wing drones, which are flown under remote control by ground-based pilots, a modified K-MAX flies autonomously along a programmed course using GPS to navigate via specified way points.
Well the results of the first half of 2012 are now available from Rosstat and, at first glance, they would appear to be ground for significant optimism: GDP grew at a 4.9% rate, fixed capital formation grew at 4.7%, and retail turnover galloped ahead at a rapid 6.9% annual rate.
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But now Europe's other big phone firms have regained lost ground, paying down much of their debt and piling up cash earned from their vast fixed-line businesses.
O'Leary has similar clients try a horizontal pull-up at home with a pull-up bar in a doorway (from lying on ground) or with a similar setup at the gym (lying on a bench with a fixed horizontal bar set up above).
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Curiosity remained in contact with ground controllers, but it can't zap rocks, snap pictures or roam around until the problem is fixed.
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