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In 1980, airline industry entrepreneur Frank Lorenzo, through his holding company Texas Air Corporation, formed startup, non-union airline New York Air.Operations commenced on December 19, 1980, with hourly shuttle service between New York LaGuardia, Washington National, and Boston Logan airports in direct competition with the long-established, successful Eastern Air Lines Shuttle.
Delta Sigma Theta established Delta Towers in the northeast area of Washington, D.C. Delta Towers is an apartment building for elderly and disabled individuals. [46] Delta Towers was the first retirement center founded by any of the African-American sororities or fraternities in the United States. [ 47 ]
The Convair F-102 Delta Dagger [N 2] is an interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Convair. A member of the Century Series , the F-102 was the first operational supersonic interceptor and delta-wing fighter operated by the United States Air Force (USAF).
Ganges Delta, 2020 satellite photograph. The Ganges Delta (also known the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the Sundarbans Delta or the Bengal Delta [1]) is a river delta predominantly covering the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, India.
The Thor-Delta, also known as Delta DM-19 or just Delta was an early American expendable launch system used for 12 orbital launches in the early 1960s. A derivative of the Thor-Able , it was a member of the Thor family of rockets, and the first member of the Delta family.
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Dyke Delta JD-2 in flight at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2011, with landing gear retracted. The aircraft is metal framed with skin of laminated fiberglass or covering of Dacron fabric. Its landing gear is retractable. The delta configuration offers a relatively high cruise speed compared to conventional aircraft of the same weight and power.
The DC-X, short for Delta Clipper or Delta Clipper Experimental, was an uncrewed prototype of a reusable single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle built by McDonnell Douglas in conjunction with the United States Department of Defense's Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) from 1991 to 1993.