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1. Delta Air Lines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled Delta Air Lines domestic service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Los Angeles with an intermediate stop at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). On August 2, 1985, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar operating Flight 191 encountered a microburst while on approach to land at DFW.
Delta Force bodyguards in civilian clothing providing close protection to General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Gulf War, 1991. Delta Force was created in 1977 after numerous well-publicized terrorist incidents led the U.S. government to develop a full-time counter-terrorism unit. Key military and government figures had already been briefed on ...
t. e. In mathematical analysis, the Dirac delta function (or δ distribution ), also known as the unit impulse, [1] is a generalized function on the real numbers, whose value is zero everywhere except at zero, and whose integral over the entire real line is equal to one. [2] [3] [4] Since there is no function having this property, modelling the ...
Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta was designated a National Heritage Area on March 12, 2019. The city of Stockton is located on the San Joaquin River at the eastern edge of the delta. The total area of the Delta, including both land and water, is about 1,100 square miles (2,800 km 2 ). Its population is around 500,000.
Delta Reticuli (Delta Ret, δ Reticuli, δ Ret) is a star in the southern constellation of Reticulum. It is visible to the naked eye , having an apparent visual magnitude of 4.60. [2] The distance to this star, as estimated from its annual parallax shift of 6.20 mas , [1] is roughly 530 light-years from the Sun .
First Delta IV Heavy launch from Vandenberg [8] Military comsat . A technology demonstration and Earth observation satellite. The launch was delayed from May 2010 because development of the spacecraft was taking longer than expected. [11] Final Delta II Heavy launch and final launch from SLC-17 at CCAFS.
The Louisiana & Delta's only surviving ATSF CF7 locomotive, formerly LDRR 1500. The Louisiana and Delta Railroad ( reporting mark LDRR) is a short-line railroad headquartered in New Iberia, Louisiana . LDRR operates over 114 miles of branch line in southern Louisiana between Lafayette, Louisiana and Raceland, Louisiana, with most of the lines ...
The Nile Delta at night as seen from the ISS in October 2010. The Nile Delta ( Arabic: دلتا النيل, Delta an-Nīl or simply الدلتا, ad-Delta) is the delta formed in Lower Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. [1] It is one of the world's larger deltas—from Alexandria in the west to Port ...