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Well Wikipedia is supposed to be corrected by experts but I sure learned differently that first and only year I studied aeronotical engeneering. The idea is that a regular aircraft has the foreward wings pushing lift at the centre of gravity (or slightly in front) which then is negatively corrected by the tail wings (pushing the nose down) to let it go foreward. The delta makes it possible to have the centre of lift put behind the centre of gravity, eliminating the need for those tailfins. That's why they are more efficient. The canards (foreward deltas) as seen on the Rafale or Saab fighters also has a positive lift. Hence double delta.
I'll have to mention the "canards" in the Birding Bond thread, though.
Saab double delta. I gotta remember that.
1. the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet
Also:
2. all caps (E.T.A.), acronym for “Estimated Time of Arrival”
3. all caps (ETA), Swiss designer and manufacturer of mechanical and automatic watch movements and ébauches
Early Greek (“h" sound). Classical Greek (long "e" sound). Modern Greek ("i").
Combination of the Roman H and Cyrillic И.
The Eta glider, as manufactured by the ETA Aircraft company.
ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse (ETA SA Swiss Watch Manufacturer) designs, manufactures quartz watches. Also hand-wound and automatic-winding mechanical ébauches and movements. Headquarters Grenchen, Switzerland. Today a part of The Swatch Group Ltd.
ETA founded by Eterna, 1856. Production line traces to 1793, Fabriques d’Horlogerie de Fontainemelon (FHF) founded by David Benguerel, Isaac Benguerel, François Humbert-Droz, Julien Humbert-Droz. Manufactures for the Swatch Group plus competitors. Through mergers (absorbing Valjoux, Peseux, Lemania, others), ETA holds almost a monopoly of Swiss watch movements.
1793 FHF (Fabriques d’Horlogerie de Fontainemelon) founded by David Benguerel, Isaac Benguerel, François Humbert-Droz, Julien Humbert-Droz.
1856: Schoolmaster Urs Schild and Dr. Girard establish an ébauche (watch movement) factory, later Eterna.
1896: ETA AS becomes the movement branch of Eterna.
1926: Ébauches Ltd created by ETA AS and FHF (founded 1793).
1930: SSIH established, combination of Omega and Tissot. SSIH strengthens its presence as a producer of Swiss watches.
1931: ASUAG established, expands by acquiring producers of movement blanks.
1930s: bad economic times, SSIH and ASUAG commit to research and development.
1970s. more troubles for the Swiss watch industry. SSIH and ASUAG approach bankruptcy.
1978: merger of AS and ETA.
1983: SSIH and ASUAG merge as SMH (Swiss Corporation for Microelectronics and Watchmaking Industries Ltd., or Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie), and Ernst Thomke and his team create the Swatch: "second watch". Inexpensive, hi-tech, trendy.
1985: ETA absorbs Ébauches Ltd and FHF (today part of SMH/Swatch Group).
1998: SMH renamed the Swatch Group.
ETA 2892 Omega Seamaster Professional. ETA 2892.A2, Omega 1120.
James Bond Seamaster Planet Ocean ETA 2892.A2.
Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Skyfall. (Omega 8507 is non-ETA)
Omega Seamaster300 Spectre. (Omega 8400 is non-ETA)
[Written by a watch non-aficionado. Corrections welcome.]
1. a city in ancient Greece (in Epirus)
2. Greek given name, male or female
Greek (Ολύμπη, Olympe or Olympa).
Olympe´Ne (Ὀλυμπηνή), district of Mysia, northern part of Mount Olympus. Inhabited by Olympeni (Ὀλυμπηνοί), also called Olympieni (Ὀλυμπιηνοί).
Olympe played by Virginia North.
1. original location for the Olympic Games, northwestern Peloponnese peninsula, Greece
Greek (Ὀλυμπία / Olumpía; Ὄλυμπος / Ólumpos).
Artist’s concept of ancient Olympia.
Ivory and gold statue of Zeus at Olympia, by sculptor Pheidias,
once considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
It's a reflex, isn't it? I, too, cannot help saying this whenever I see him.
1. related to Mount Olympus, Greece
2. related to Olympia, Greece
3. related to the Olympic Games
Latin (Olympicus, from Olympus). Greek (Olympikós).
Olympic Games: originally an ancient Greek festival and sporting competition to honor Zeus. A truce remained in effect during the events, ensuring safe travel between other cities and Olympia. The games occurred as an olympiad, meaning every 4 years. The winners received wreaths or crowns made of olive leafs. Over time the events included running, combat, and the pentathlon--five events of running, the long jump, the discus throw, the javelin throw, wrestling. The activity also attracted artists and sculptors using the venue for their business. As did politicians. Thought to have begun circa 776 BC. and to continue under Roman rule until AD 393--stopped by emperor Theodosius, as Greek gods came into conflict with Christianity.
With the Greek War of Independence and the Ottoman Empire's end, Greece reestablished the Olympic Games 1859, Athens. The Panathenaic Stadium was restored to host future iterations. Eventual first Olympic Games under the International Olympic Committee took hold in 1896. The IOC began the movement of games to other cities, first with Paris.
1896 Panathenaic Stadium.
1906 .
Winter Olympics for snow and ice sports began 1908 and 1920 as part of the Summer Olympics. The first dedicated Winter Olympic Games commenced 1924 in Chamonix, France, the same year as Summer Games held 3 months later. From 1992 the Winter Games offset the Summer Games by two years.
Also: a rough unit of volume approximating one (1) microliter.
From Wikipedia:
Chapter 1 - Seascape with Figures
IT WAS one of those Septembers when it seemed that the summer would never end.
The five-mile promenade of Royale-les-Eaux, backed by trim lawns emblazoned at intervals with tricolour beds of salvia, alyssum and lobelia, was bright with nags and, on the longest beach in the north of France, the gay bathing tents still marched prettily down to the tide-line in big, money-making battalions. Music, one of those lilting accordion waltzes, blared from the loudspeakers around the Olympic-size piscine and, from time to time, echoing above the music, a man's voice announced over the public address system that Philippe Bertrand, aged seven, was looking for his mother, that Yolande Lefevre was waiting for her friends below the dock at the entrance, or that a Madame Dufours was demanded on the telephone. From the beach, particularly from the neighbourhood of the three playground enclosures -'Joie de Vivre', 'Helio' and 'Azur' - came a twitter of children's cries that waxed and waned with the thrill of their games and, farther out, on the firm sand left by the now distant sea, the shrill whistle of the physical-fitness instructor marshalled his teenagers through the last course of the day.
It was one of those beautiful, naive seaside panoramas for which the Brittany and Picardy beaches have provided the setting - and inspired their recorders, Boudin, Tissot, Monet - ever since the birth of plages and bains de mer more than a hundred years ago.
To James Bond, sitting in one of the concrete shelters with his face to the setting sun, there was something poignant, ephemeral about it all. It reminded him almost too vividly of childhood - of the velvet feel of the hot powder sand, and the painful grit of wet sand between young toes when the time came for him to put his shoes and socks on, of the precious little pile of sea-shells and interesting wrack on the sill of his bedroom window ('No, we'll have to leave that behind, darling. It'll dirty up your trunk!'), of the small crabs scuttling away from the nervous fingers groping beneath the seaweed in the rock-pools, of the swimming and swimming and swimming through the dancing waves - always in those days, it seemed, lit with sunshine - and then the infuriating, inevitable 'time to come out'. It was all there, his own childhood, spread out before him to have another look at. What a long time ago they were, those spade-and-bucket days! How far he had come since the freckles and the Cadbury milk-chocolate Flakes and the fizzy lemonade! Impatiently Bond lit a cigarette, pulled his shoulders out of their slouch and slammed the mawkish memories back into their long-closed file. Today he was a grown-up, a man with years of dirty, dangerous memories - a spy. He was not sitting in this concrete hideout to sentimentalize.about a pack of scrubby, smelly children on a beach scattered with bottle-tops and lolly-sticks and fringed by a sea thick with sun-oil and putrid with the main drains of Royale. He was here, he had chosen to be here, to spy. To spy on a woman.