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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 München Mü5 Wastl Germany Glider 1929
Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-13 Arcus Germany Glider 1988
Arup S-1 USA 1932 Rounded "heel wing"
Arup S-2 USA 1933 Rounded "heel wing"
Arup S-3 USA 1934 Rounded "heel wing"
Arup S-4 USA 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 1950 Prototype 1 delta wing
BOK-5 USSR Propeller Private 1937 Prototype BOK - Byuro Osobykh Konstruktsiy
Briffaud GB-6 France Propeller Private 1955 Prototype
Brochocki BKB-1 Canada Glider Private 1959 Prototype 1
Charpentier C1 France 1935 Trimotor.[1]
Convair XF-92A US Jet Fighter 1948 Prototype
Convair F2Y Sea Dart US Jet Fighter 1953 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 1946 Prototype 3
DINFIA IA 38 Argentina Propeller Transport 1960 Prototype Designed by Reimar Horten.
Douglas F4D Skyray US Jet 1951
Dunne D.1 UK Glider Experimental 1907 Prototype 1 Biplane. Failed to fly with pusher power module.
Dunne D.3 UK Glider Experimental 1908 Prototype 1 Biplane.
Dunne D.4 UK Propeller Experimental 1908 Prototype 1 Pusher biplane.
Dunne D.5 UK Propeller Experimental 1910 Prototype 1 Pusher biplane.
Dunne D.6 UK Propeller Experimental 1910 Prototype 1 Pusher. Failed.
Dunne D.7 UK Propeller Experimental 1911 Prototype Pusher.
Dunne D.8 UK Propeller Experimental 1911 Operational 2 Pusher biplane.
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 France Glider Private 1951 Homebuild 100+ and others by Charles Fauvel [2]
General Aircraft GAL.56 UK Glider 1944 Prototype
General Dynamics F-16XL US Jet Experimental 1982 Prototype 2 Cranked delta wing
Gotha Go 147 Germany Propeller Patrol 1936 Prototype
Granger Archaeopteryx UK Propeller Private 1930 Prototype 1
Haig Minibat US Motor glider Private Homebuild 10+
HAL Tejas India Jet Fighter 2001 Production
Handley Page HP.75 Manx UK Propeller 1943 pusher
Handley Page HP.115 UK Jet Experimental 1961 Prototype sharply swept delta wing
Hoffman tailless US 1934 Arup-type "heel wing"
Horten Aircraft 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 1953 Designed by Reimar Horten in Argentina.
Interstate XBDR US Glider 1944 Project 0
Kalinin K-12 USSR 1936 [3]
Kasper Bekas US Glider 1968 3
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 1941 Project Cancelled 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 1957
Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet Germany Rocket Fighter 1941 Production
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 1951 Prototype 1 Aero-isoclinic wing.
Short SB.4 Sherpa UK Experimental 1953 Prototype 1 Aero-isoclinic wing.
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 Private 1921 1

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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