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
| Type | Country | Class | Role | Date | Status | No. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aériane Swift | US | Glider | 1989 | n/a | Foot-launched. | ||
| Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde | France & UK | Jet | Transport | 1969 | Production | 20 | SST. |
| AeroVironment Wasp III | US | Propeller | UAV | 2007 | n/a | Date of service entry with USAF | |
| Akaflieg München Mü5 Wastl | Germany | Glider | Experimental | 1929 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-13 Arcus | Germany | Glider | Experimental | 1988 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Antonov E-153 | USSR | Jet | Fighter | 1947 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Arup S-1 | US | Propeller | Experimental | 1932 | Prototype | 1 | Rounded "heel wing". |
| Arup S-2 | US | Propeller | Experimental | 1933 | Prototype | 1 | Rounded "heel wing". |
| Arup S-3 | US | Propeller | Experimental | 1934 | Prototype | 1 | Rounded "heel wing". |
| Arup S-4 | US | Propeller | Experimental | 1935 | Prototype | 1 | Rounded "heel wing". |
| Avro 707 | UK | Jet | Experimental | 1949 | Prototype | 5 | Research for Avro Vulcan thick delta wing, 1/3 scale of Vulcan. |
| Avro CF-105 Arrow | Canada | Jet | Fighter | 1958 | Prototype | 5 | Supersonic. |
| Avro Vulcan | UK | Jet | Bomber | 1952 | Production | 136 | Subsonic. |
| BAC 221 | UK | Jet | Experimental | 1964 | Prototype | 2 | Ogee wing. Modified version of the Fairey Delta 2. |
| BAE Systems Corax | UK | Jet | UAV | 2004 | Prototype | n/a | |
| Baynes Bat | UK | Propeller | Transport | 1943 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Boulton Paul P.111 | UK | Jet | Experimental | 1950 | Prototype | 1 | Delta wing. |
| Chizhevski BOK-5 | USSR | Propeller | Private | 1937 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Briffaud GB-6 | France | Propeller | Private | 1955 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Brochocki BKB-1 | Canada | Glider | Private | 1959 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Charpentier C1 | France | Propeller | Private | 1934 | Prototype | 1 | Trimotor.[1] |
| Convair XF-92A | US | Jet | Fighter | 1948 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Convair F2Y Sea Dart | US | Jet | Fighter | 1953 | Prototype | 5 | Supersonic flying boat. |
| Convair F-102 Delta Dagger | US | Jet | Fighter | 1953 | Production | 1,000 | Supersonic. |
| Convair F-106 Delta Dart | US | Jet | Fighter | 1956 | Production | 342 | Supersonic. |
| Convair B-58 Hustler | US | Jet | Bomber | 1956 | Production | 116 | Supersonic. |
| Dassault MD 550 Mystère-Delta | France | Jet | Fighter | 1955 | Prototype | n/a | In modified form renamed the Mirage I. |
| Dassault Mirage III | France | Jet | Fighter | 1956 | Production | 1,422 | Supersonic jet. Many derivatives. |
| de Havilland DH.108 Swallow | UK | Jet | Experimental | 1946 | Prototype | 3 | |
| Douglas F4D Skyray | US | Jet | Fighter | 1951 | Operational | 422 | |
| 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 | 1 | Pusher. |
| Dunne D.8 | UK | Propeller | Experimental | 1911 | Operational | 2 | Pusher biplane. |
| EFW N-20 | Switzerland | Jet | Experimental | 1948 | Prototype | 3 | N-20.01 gilder, .02 Arbalète and .03 Aiguillon. |
| Fairey Delta 2 | UK | Jet | Experimental | 1954 | Prototype | 2 | 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] |
| FMA I.Ae 38 | Argentina | Propeller | Transport | 1960 | Prototype | 1 | Designed by Reimar Horten. |
| General Aircraft GAL.56 | UK | Glider | Experimental | 1944 | Prototype | 4 | |
| General Dynamics F-16XL | US | Jet | Experimental | 1982 | Prototype | 2 | Cranked delta wing. |
| Gotha Go 147 | Germany | Propeller | Patrol | 1936 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Granger Archaeopteryx | UK | Propeller | Private | 1930 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Haig Minibat | US | Motor glider | Private | 1979 | Homebuild | 10+ | |
| HAL Tejas | India | Jet | Fighter | 2001 | Production | 33 | |
| Handley Page HP.75 Manx | UK | Propeller | Experimental | 1943 | Prototype | 1 | Pusher. |
| Handley Page HP.115 | UK | Jet | Experimental | 1961 | Prototype | 1 | Sharply swept delta wing. |
| Hispano HA P-300 (HA-23P) | Spain | Glider | Experimental | 1959/60 | Prototype | 1 | Developed into the Egyptian Helwan HA-300 tailed jet. |
| Hoffman Flying Wing | US | Propeller | Experimental | 1934 | Prototype | 1 | Arup-type "heel wing". |
| Horten Aircraft HX-2 | Germany | Propeller | Experimental | 2018 | Prototype | n/a | |
| I.Ae. 34 Clen Antú | Argentina | Glider | 1949 | 6 | Designed by Reimar Horten and manufactured by the FMA. | ||
| I.Ae. 41 Urubú | Argentina | Glider | 1953 | 5 | Designed by Reimar Horten in Argentina. | ||
| Interstate XBDR | US | Jet | UAV | 1944 | Project | 0 | TV-guided cruise missile. |
| Kalinin K-12 | USSR | Propeller | Experimental | 1936 | Prototype | 1 | [3] |
| Kasper Bekas | US | Glider | Experimental | 1968 | Prototype | 3 | |
| Kimura/Kayaba HK-1 | Japan | Glider | Experimental | 1939 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Kayaba Ku-2 | Japan | Glider | Experimental | 1940 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Kayaba Ku-3 | Japan | Glider | Experimental | 1941 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Kayaba Ku-4 | Japan | Propeller | Experimental | 1941 | Project | 0 | Cancelled before it flew. |
| Kollman Raptor | US | 1994 | n/a | [4][5] | |||
| Lippisch delta | Germany | Propeller | Experimental | 1931-45 | Prototype | n/a | Several types. |
| Lockheed A-12 | US | Jet | Reconnaissance | 1962 | Production | n/a | Mach 3 capability. Long forward-fuselage chines. Several derivatives, especially the SR-71 Blackbird. |
| Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA | US | Jet | Experimental | 2000 | Project | 0 | Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft. |
| Marske Monarch | US | Glider | Experimental | 1974 | Homebuild | n/a | |
| Marske Pioneer | US | Glider | Experimental | 1968 | Homebuild | 17 | One example built of the Pioneer 1, at least 16 of the Pioneer II. |
| Marske XM-1 | US | Glider | Experimental | 1957 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet | Germany | Rocket | Fighter | 1941 | Production | ~370 | |
| Mitchell U-2 Superwing | US | Glider | Experimental | 1980 | Homebuild | n/a | |
| John K. Moody/Larry Mauro Easy Riser | US | Propeller | Experimental | 1975 | n/a | [6][7] | |
| Nike PUL 9 | Germany | Propeller | Experimental | 1990 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Northrop X-4 Bantam | US | Jet | Fighter | 1948 | Prototype | 2 | |
| Northrop Grumman RQ-180 | US | Jet | UAV | 2015 | Prototype | n/a | Stealth surveillance aircraft. |
| University of Pretoria Exulans | South Africa | Glider | Experimental | 1989 | Prototype | 2 | Exulans I and II. "Gull" variable-sweep wing.[8][9] |
| Saab 35 Draken | Sweden | Jet | Fighter | 1955 | Production | 651 | Supersonic jet. Double-delta planform. |
| Short SB.1 | UK | Glider | Experimental | 1951 | Prototype | 1 | Aero-isoclinic wing. |
| Short SB.4 Sherpa | UK | Jet | Experimental | 1953 | Prototype | 1 | Aero-isoclinic wing. |
| Soldenhof So.A | Switzerland | Propeller | Private | 1930 | Prototype | 1 | Pusher.[10] |
| Sypaq Corvo Precision Payload Delivery System | Australia | Propeller | UAV | 2019 | Operational | n/a | Electric powered stealth waxed cardboard 2m (6.6 ft) wingspan surveillance aircraft.[11] |
| Tupolev Tu-144 | USSR | Jet | Transport | 1968 | Operational | 16 | SST. |
| Vought F7U Cutlass | US | Jet | Multirole Fighter | 1948 | Operational | 320 | |
| Westland-Hill Pterodactyl | UK | Propeller | Experimental | 1920s-1930s | Prototype | 3 | Series of types, 3 actually built. |
| Weltensegler | Germany | Glider | Private | 1921 | Prototype | 1 |
See also
References
- ↑ "Charpentier C-1". www.aviafrance.com. 2003-08-21. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
- ↑ Gliders of Charles Fauvel
- ↑ Russian Aviation Museum
- ↑ Raptor, Kollman Composites. (Retrieved 2 November 2021)
- ↑ Hang glider RAPTOR], Delta Club 82. (Retrieved 2 November 2021)
- ↑ Easy Riser by Larry Mauro
- ↑ Original easy riser by John Moody
- ↑ [https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/28011/01chapters1-3.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y Chapter 1. Introduction. (Retrieved 2 November 2021)
- ↑ Hang glider EXULANS, Delta Club 82. (Retrieved 2 November 2021).
- ↑ "The Soldenhof Tailless 'Plane; A Swiss Light 'Plane Two-Seater". Flight. 26 December 1930. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ↑ "Corvo PPDS - CORVO". CORVO. SYPAQ. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
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