@travelwithnoon: Delta Air Lines exists because of a bug. In the 1890s the boll weevil crossed from Mexico and began destroying the cotton the South's whole economy ran on. Nothing on the ground could stop it, so in 1925 a Georgia company called Huff Daland Dusters went after it from the sky with eighteen biplanes nicknamed Puffers. Their chief entomologist, a bug scientist named C.E. Woolman, ended up buying the company with local investors in 1928 and renaming it for the farmland it served: the Mississippi Delta. Its first flight carried five passengers from Dallas to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1929. Today it's the largest airline in the world by revenue. And the little crop duster its own people rebuilt as a memorial to Woolman hangs in the Smithsonian. Send this to the person you'd fly anywhere with. Follow for the untold stories behind the world's most iconic places. #DeltaAirLines #AviationHistory #BollWeevil #TravelHistory #hiddenhistorymuseum @delta

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