Delta air lines

Airline Delta Air Lines was founded May 30, 1924 under the name of Huff Daland Dusters in Macon, Georgia, as a branch of Huff Daland, specializing in the production of military aircraft.

The new unit was spraying pesticides in cotton fields of the South and the United States has had great success with the farmers, as the world's first applied the aircraft to control agricultural pests.

The airline and its subsidiaries employ about 75,000 people.
In the Delta of about 6,000 pilots, members of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA). The association represents Delta pilots since 1940.

At the beginning of an era with the arrival of jet aircraft deHavilland Comet IV and Boeing 707 and other entertainment systems except for magazines and newspapers did not exist. Then, in the 1960s, were introduced audio for music through headphones, which have been used on a few aircraft Delta.