Word: delta
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...area of the Falklands on April 29. The first action of the fleet's commander, Rear Admiral John ("Sandy") Woodward, 50, had been to enforce a total air and sea blockade within 200 miles of the islands. In a daring, long-distance raid on May 1, a delta-winged Vulcan bomber blasted the airstrip near the Falklands' tiny capital, Port Stanley. Flights of carrier-based Sea Harrier jets pounded the airfield with more bombs and also attacked a second, grassy airstrip 50 miles away, near the settlement of Goose Green. A British Sea King helicopter reportedly launched...
...sudden spate of attacks, British warplanes swept in over Port Stanley, the Falklands' tiny capital, and struck at the 4,000-ft. airstrip held since Argentina invaded the islands on April 2. First came a long-range, delta-winged Vulcan bomber from a base at Ascension Island, some 3,800 miles away. The Vulcan refueled in the air on the way to its target, dropped 21 half-ton bombs and, said a British defense official in London, left the airfield "severely cratered...
Declining passenger traffic and fierce price-cutting competition have sent the airlines into a dangerous tailspin. United Airlines reported a quarterly loss of $130 million, the worst in its 56-year history Eastern Air Lines also posted a record deficit of $51 million. Delta, the strongest air carrier, reported a shortfall of $18 million, its first quarterly loss in 25 years...
...Delta Kappa Epsilon, Zeta Psi, Delta Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Sigma Phi, Theta Delta Chi and Sigma Chi are the seven fraternities that are trying to organize at Princeton...
Fortunately, Columbia's computers knew where they were. After streaking across Arizona and New Mexico, the delta-winged craft emerged right on target at the sprawling, mountain-rimmed missile testing grounds. Columbia then made a wide right turn, aligned itself with one of the desert runways and plunged downward at breathtaking speed, dropping at an angle seven times steeper than that of a commercial jet. At 4,000 ft., its fall was accelerated by a fluke wind that caused the speed brakes in the shuttle's rudder to retreat automatically. Finally, only 143 ft. off the ground, Lousma...