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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 airline was founded as Comair Jet Express in 1984. It was renamed in October 2001 by the parent company Delta Air Lines.Delta Air Lines wholly own it. [1] [3]Delta Private Jets is a private aviation service aimed at businesses needs to destinations on a private aircraft or that the airport does not supply regularly.
On April 15, 2008, Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines announced a merger agreement. [1] The merger of the two carriers formed what was then the largest commercial airline in the world, with 786 aircraft. The Delta Air Lines brand was retained, while Northwest's brand officially ended in 2010. [2]
Delta Air Lines is a major American airline. [1] [2] The company's history began with the world's first aerial crop dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters Inc., founded in 1925 in Macon, Georgia [3] to combat the boll weevil infestation of cotton crops. [4]
The Delta Center is an indoor venue in Salt Lake City.Opened in 1991, the arena is the home of the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and, starting with the 2024-25 Season, the Utah Hockey Club of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Mississippi Delta – green line marks boundary. The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.
[4]: 92 Flight Engineer Nicholas Nestor "Nick" Nassick, age 43, had been a Delta employee since 1976. He had logged 6,500 hours of flight time, including 4,500 in the TriStar. Fellow Delta employees described Nassick as "observant, alert, and professional." [4]: 7 Connors had served with the United States Navy from 1950 to 1954 and fought ...
Delta at its initial peak intensity as a Category 4 hurricane on October 6. Delta attained its peak intensity by 18:00 UTC with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (220 km/h) and a barometric pressure of 953 mbar (28.14 inHg). Delta had intensified by 105 mph (165 km/h) in over 36 hours, which only four other tropical cyclones had been able to ...