Quite so Though not always reliable the WP entries for tailless aircraft and the delta wing both acknowledge the Vulcan as a tailed delta Perhaps entirely reliable is the testimony of Mr JAR Kay MRAeS a director of A V Roe who wrote in  The concern of this article however is the choice of the tailless delta for a high altitude bomber the Avro Vulcan Reproduced Laming p  To read in para  of Development that the Vulcan has a full tail suggests the Vulcan has a tailplane or empannage which it does not It is true that types exist that have no fin such as the X which have been described as tailless but that usage does not overwrite a description that has been around for odd years A tailed delta is a design that happens to both a delta wing and a tailplane eg the MiG