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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.
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 ...
Delta-v (more known as " change in velocity "), symbolized as and pronounced deltah-vee, as used in spacecraft flight dynamics, is a measure of the impulse per unit of spacecraft mass that is needed to perform a maneuver such as launching from or landing on a planet or moon, or an in-space orbital maneuver. It is a scalar that has the units of ...
The Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat. She is known for cruising the major rivers that constitute the tributaries of the Mississippi River, particularly in the American South, although she began service in California on the Sacramento River delta for which she gets her name. She was docked in Chattanooga, Tennessee and served as a ...
List of Delta Zeta chapters. Delta Zeta is an international college sorority founded in 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. [1] The sorority absorbed Beta Phi Alpha in 1941, Delta Sigma Epsilon in 1956, and Theta Upsilon in 1962. [2] Following is a list of the chapters and colonies of Delta Zeta. [2] [3] Active chapters are indicated in ...
The Delta rocket family was a versatile range of American rocket -powered expendable launch systems that provided space launch capability in the United States from 1960 to 2024. Japan also launched license-built derivatives ( N-I, N-II, and H-I) from 1975 to 1992. More than 300 Delta rockets were launched with a 95% success rate.
J. Michael Cook, former Chairman and CEO of Deloitte & Touche, LLP. Jack Laughery, Hardee's Restaurants Chairman. Jeff Stibel, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp CEO. John Arrillaga, real estate (worth $1.4 billion), Stanford University. John van Hengel, America's Second Harvest Food Bank founder.
Operation Eagle Claw. Abandoned, crashed and burned out aircraft at Desert One. Delta's very first tasking began the night after they successfully completed their operational assessment on 4 November 1979 when Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Delta was immediately tasked to rescue the hostages and began training on storming ...