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A tailless aircraft is one which has no separate horizontal stabilizer or control surface, either behind or in front of the main wing.

List of aircraft

See also: List of flying wings
Type Country Class Role Date Status No. Notes
Aériane Swift Glider Foot-launched
Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde France & UK Jet Transport 1969 Production SST
AeroVironment Wasp III UAV
Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-13 Arcus 1988
Arup S-1 1932 Rounded "heel wing"
Arup S-2 1933 Rounded "heel wing"
Arup S-3 1934 Rounded "heel wing"
Arup S-4 1935 Rounded "heel wing"
Avro 707 UK Jet Experimental 1949 Prototype Research for Avro Vulcan thick delta wing, 1/3 scale of Vulcan
Avro CF-105 Arrow Canada Jet Fighter 1958 Prototype Supersonic. Five completed.
Avro Vulcan UK Jet Bomber 1952 Production Subsonic.
BAC 221 UK Jet Experimental 1964 Prototype Ogee wing. Modified version of the Fairey Delta 2.
BAE Systems Corax UK UAV 2004 Prototype
Baynes Bat UK Propeller Transport 1943 Prototype
Boulton Paul P.111 UK Jet Experimental Prototype delta wing
BOK-5 USSR Propeller Private 1937 Prototype BOK - Byuro Osobykh Konstruktsiy
Briffaud GB-6 France Propeller Private 1955 Prototype
Brochocki BKB-1
Charpentier C1 France 1935 Trimotor.[1]
Convair XF-92A US Jet Fighter 1948 Prototype
Convair F2Y Sea Dart US Jet Fighter Prototype Supersonic flying boat.
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger US Jet Fighter 1953 Production Supersonic
Convair F-106 Delta Dart US Jet Fighter 1956 Production Supersonic
Convair B-58 Hustler US Jet Bomber 1956 Production Supersonic
Dassault MD 550 Mystère-Delta France Jet Fighter 1955 Prototype In modified form renamed the Mirage I.
Dassault Mirage III France Jet Fighter 1956 Production Supersonic jet. Many derivatives.
de Havilland DH.108 Swallow UK Jet Experimental Prototype
DINFIA IA 38 Argentina Propeller Transport 1960 Prototype Designed by Reimar Horten.
Douglas F4D Skyray US Jet 1951
Dunne UK Propeller 1907-1913 Several types
Fairey Delta 2 UK Jet Experimental 1954 Prototype 2 built. First aircraft to exceed 1,000 miles per hour. Later modified as the BAC 221.
Fauvel AV.36 and others by Charles Fauvel [2]
General Aircraft GAL.56 UK Glider 1944 Prototype
General Dynamics F-16XL US Jet Experimental Prototype cranked delta wing
Gotha Go 147 Germany Propeller Patrol 1936 Prototype
Granger Archaeopteryx UK Propeller
Haig Minibat
HAL Tejas India Jet
Handley Page HP.75 Manx UK Propeller 1943 pusher
Handley Page HP.115 UK Jet Experimental 1961 Prototype sharply swept delta wing
Hoffman tailless Arup-type "heel wing"
Horten HX-2 Germany Propeller Experimental 2018 Prototype
I.Ae. 34 Clen Antú Argentina Glider 1949 Designed by Reimar Horten and manufactured by the FMA.
I.Ae. 41 Urubú Argentina Glider Designed by Reimar Horten in Argentina.
Interstate XBDR
Kalinin K-12 USSR 1936 [3]
Kasper Bekas
Kimura/Kayaba HK-1 Japan Glider Experimental 1939 Prototype
Kayaba Ku-2 Japan Glider Experimental 1940 Prototype
Kayaba Ku-3 Japan Glider Experimental 1941 Prototype
Kayaba Ku-4 Japan Propeller Experimental Project Cancelled in 1941 before it flew.
Kollman Composites Raptor [4]
Lippisch delta Germany Propeller Experimental Prototype Several types
Lockheed A-12 US Jet Reconnaissance 1962 Production Mach 3 capability. Long forward-fuselage chines. Several derivatives, especially the SR-71 Blackbird.
Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA US Jet Experimental 2000 Project Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft
Marske Monarch
Marske Pioneer
Marske XM-1
Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet Germany Rocket Fighter Production Rocket powered.
Mitchell U-2 Superwing 1977
John K. Moody/Larry Mauro Easy Riser [5][6]
Nike PUL 9 Germany Propeller Experimental 1990 Prototype
Northrop X-4 Bantam US Jet Fighter 1948 Prototype
Northrop Grumman RQ-180 US UAV Stealth surveillance aircraft 2015 Prototype
University of Pretoria Exulans Glider Prototype Stromburg wing.[7][8]
Saab 35 Draken Sweden Jet Fighter 1955 Production Supersonic jet. Double-delta planform.
Short SB.1 UK Glider Experimental Prototype Aero-isoclinic wing research.
Short SB.4 Sherpa UK Experimental Prototype Aero-isoclinic wing research.
Soldenhof So.A Switzerland Propeller Private 1930 Prototype Pusher.[9]
Tupolev Tu-144 USSR Jet Transport Operational SST
Vought F7U Cutlass US Jet 1948
Westland-Hill Pterodactyl UK Propeller 1920s-1930s Prototype Series of types
Weltensegler Germany Glider 1921

See also

References

  1. ^ "Charpentier C-1". www.aviafrance.com. 2003-08-21. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
  2. ^ Gliders of Charles Fauvel
  3. ^ Russian Aviation Museum
  4. ^ Kollman Composites Raptor Archived 2012-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Easy Riser by Larry Mauro
  6. ^ Original easy riser by John Moody
  7. ^ University of Pretoria Exulans
  8. ^ Exulans using Stromburg wing Archived 2012-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "The Soldenhof Tailless 'Plane; A Swiss Light 'Plane Two-Seater". Flight. 26 December 1930. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
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