Tailless aircraft
List of tailless aircraft

Tailless aircraft

Section Title: List of tailless aircraft
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Type	Country	Class	Role	Date	Status	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.

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

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

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 design

Handley Page HP.115	UK	Jet	Experimental	1961	Prototype	sharply swept delta wing

Hoffman tailless	Arup-type "heel wing"

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

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

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	Jet	Fighter	Production	Rocket powered, swept wing.

Mitchell U-2 Superwing	1977

John K. Moody/Larry Mauro Easy Riser

Northrop X-4 Bantam	US	Jet	Fighter	1948	Prototype

University of Pretoria Exulans	Glider	Prototype	Stromburg wing.

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.

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

Sentence(s)

Supersonic airliners The Anglo-French Concorde Supersonic transport and Soviet the Tupolev Tu-144 were tailless supersonic jet airliners.

final_sentence: Supersonic airliners The Anglo-French Concorde Supersonic transport and Soviet the Tupolev Tu-144 were tailless supersonic jet airliners.