Word: delta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like the second flight might never get off the pad. Miscalculations and errors caused repeated delays. In the first flight an unexpectedly powerful shock wave from the initial blast of the shuttle's solid-fuel rockets caused the control flaps on the trailing edge of Columbia's delta wings to flutter so wildly that they approached the breaking point. The shock also bent and buckled several of the metal trusses linking Columbia to its big external fuel tank. To prevent a recurrence of this near disaster, engineers had to undertake a complete overhaul of the shock-suppression system...
...seems that the system can survive without the controllers, albeit at a lower level of air traffic. The time required to rebuild the system is taking a toll on the nation's airlines and, most visibly, on the patience and stamina of the traveling public. Three major airlines (Delta, TWA and United) reported last week that third-quarter earnings had slumped as a result of the reduced air traffic. Air New England, the boon and bane of that region's travelers, decided to fold its wings at the end of the month after eleven years of operation...
...government's probe of Sadat's assassination continued to unearth new details about Egypt's shadowy underground terrorist network. Nearly a month before the murder, agents had uncovered a plot to kill Sadat in the Nile delta town of Mansura. Sadat had actually been shown video and sound recordings of armed members of Islamic extremist groups who were plotting his assassination, but gave the matter little thought. Mubarak himself added more details about the conspiracy against Sadat. The objective of the killers, he said, was to "physically liquidate" all of Egypt's top military, religious...
...enthusiastic. Complaining of fatigue to his Vice President, Hosni Mubarak, he said he wished he did not have to attend the parade. Mubarak urged him to stay at home and rest. But Sadat's sense of duty won out. He would go, and afterward, in his Nile Delta home village of Mit Abu el Kom, visit the grave of his brother Atif, a pilot killed on the first day of the October War. Dressed as Egypt's Supreme Commander in a field marshal's gold-braided blue uniform festooned with a green sash, Sadat made a traditional stop...
...forces of Sadat's life. "I can never lose my way because I know that I have living roots in the soil of my village," he wrote in his 1978 autobiography, In Search of Identity. One of 13 children, Sadat was born on Christmas Day, 1918, in the Nile Delta village of Mit Abu el Kom. His father was a military hospital clerk, his mother an illiterate Sudanese. He spent his early years working in the fields and attending the village kuttab, an Islamic school where he learned to read and write and studied the Koran. It was the beginning...