PARKED TOGETHER on the grass at the Experimental Aircraft Association's (EAA) aviation extravaganza in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the five strange airplanes look as if they might have flown in from the future. The Dyke Delta has no horizontal tail and the body is almost all wing-a very space-age, stealthy airplane. On the porch of a nearby cafe, a group of 25 or 30 people cluster around an older gentleman. The annual Dyke Delta "family reunion" is in session, designer John W. Dyke presiding. Despite the ultramodern appearance of the Delta, it's been 50 years since Dyke put the first lines of the airplane on paper. His family of aviation enthusiasts has grown since then. "I know every Delta builder by name, and I know all their stories," says Dyke. One of the earliest additions to that family, AI White, a pilot in Superior, Wisconsin, started construction in 1971. He had intended the airplane as transportation for his family of four. It didn't work out that way. By the time he flew his JD-2 in 2010, some 39 years after making the first parts, his son and daughter had families of their own.
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机译：在实验飞机协会（EAA）航空公司的草地上停放在威斯康星州奥什科什的航空公司，这五次奇怪的飞机看起来好像他们可能已经从未来飞行。 Dyke Delta没有水平尾部，身体几乎是一个非常空间的空间，隐身的飞机。在附近的咖啡馆的门廊上，一群25或30人在一位老绅士周围聚集。年度Dyke Delta“Family Reunion”在会议上，设计师John W. Dyke主持。尽管三角洲的超级外观，但堤坝已经在纸上放置了第一行飞机已经50年了。他的航空爱好者家庭从那时起生长了。 “我按名字知道每个三角洲建设者，我知道他们所有的故事，”堤防说。该家庭最早的补充之一，威斯康星州的Sigher，威斯康星州的飞行员于1971年开始建造。他曾在四人家里作为运输的飞机。它没有那种方式。当他在2010年飞行的JD-2时，大约39年后，第一个部分后，他的儿子和女儿都有自己的家庭。
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