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Delta wing facts for kids

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A Mirage III tailless delta wing fighter
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A tailed MiG-21 Fishbed

A delta wing is a wing used on fixed-wing aircraft, mainly fighter aircraft. Delta wings are triangles. Some were "tailless" (which means they had no elevators) and others were "tailed." Many of the Dassault Aviation Mirages had delta wings (like the Mirage III, Mirage V, Mirage 50, and Mirage 2000).

Delta winged fighters


Images for kids

  • 194th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron - Convair F-106A-135-CO Delta Dart 59-0136

    Convair made several supersonic deltas. This is an F-106 Delta Dart, a development of their earlier F-102 Delta Dagger

  • Concorde on Bristol

    Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde shows off its ogee wing

  • Saab Draken

    The Saab 35 Draken was a successful tailless double-delta design

  • Eurofighter 9803 2

    The Eurofighter Typhoon has a canard delta wing configuration.

  • Vulcan.delta.arp

    The Avro Vulcan bomber had a thick wing

  • SSSR-MiG-21SM(DN-ST-82-10891)

    The MiG-21 fighter had a conventional tail

  • Saab viggen underside

    The Saab Viggen pioneered the close-coupled canard

  • Birdman MJ-5 0002

    This hang glider is a relatively broad-span and lightly swept Rogallo delta

See also

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