A flying wing is a type of

tailless aircraft In aeronautics, a tailless aircraft is an aircraft with no other horizontal aerodynamic surface besides its main wing. It may still have a fuselage, vertical tail fin (vertical stabilizer), and/or vertical rudder. Theoretical advantages of the ...

which has no distinct fuselage. The crew, engines and equipment are housed inside a thick wing, typically showing small nacelles, blisters and other housings.

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, - , Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 , , UK , , Jet , , Experimental , , 1947 , , Prototype , , 2 , , Twin engined. , - ,

BAE Systems Taranis The BAE Systems Taranis is a British demonstrator programme for unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) technology, under development primarily by the defence contractor BAE Systems Military Air & Information. The aircraft, which is named after t ...

, , UK , , Jet , , UAV , , 2013 , , Prototype , , n/a , , , - ,

Boeing Phantom Ray The Boeing Phantom Ray is an American demonstration stealth unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) developed by Boeing using company funds. The autonomous Phantom Ray is a flying wing around the size of a conventional fighter jet, and first flew in ...

, , US , , Jet , , UAV , , 2011 , , Prototype , , n/a , , , - ,

Chyeranovskii BICh-3 The BICh-3 (russian: БИЧ-3) was a tailless research aircraft designed and built in the USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia f ...

, , USSR , , Propeller , , Experimental , , 1926 , , Prototype , , 1 , , , - , Dassault nEUROn , , France , , Jet , , UAV , , 2012 , , Prototype , , n/a , , stealth , - , Delft Flying-V , , Netherlands , , Ducted fan , , UAV , , 2020 , , Experimental , , 1 , , Scale model of proposed airliner , - ,

DRDO Ghatak ''Ghatak'' (pronounced: Help:IPA/Hindi, gʰɑːt̪ək) is an autonomous jet powered Stealth aircraft, stealthy unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV), being developed by Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) of the Defence Research and Develop ...

, , India , , Jet , , UCAV , , 2022 , , Prototype, , 1 , , Scaled down technology demonstrator , - , Farrar V-1 Flying Wing , , US , , Glider , , Homebuilt , , 1962 , , Prototype , , 1 , , , - , Freel Flying Wing , , US , , Glider , , Homebuilt , , 1937 , , Prototype , , 1 , , School project , - ,

Horten H.I The Horten H.I was a German flying wing research Glider (aircraft), glider built by Horten brothers, Walter and Reimar Horten in 1933. Design and development The first aircraft of the Horten brothers was created with considerable effort in 1933 ...

, , Germany , , Glider , , Experimental , , 1933 , , Prototype , , 2 , , , - , Horten H.II , , Germany , , Glider , , Experimental , , 1935 , , Prototype , , 4 , , , - ,

Horten H.III The Horten H.III was a flying wing sailplane built by Walter and Reimar Horten in Germany from 1937 to 1944. Design The H.III series was an incremental development of the Horten H.II with reduced sweepback of 23°, span increased to 20 m (6 ...

, , Germany , , Glider , , Experimental , , 1937 , , Prototype , , 19 , , 1 modified as motorglider , - , Horten H.IV , , Germany , , Glider , , , , 1941 , , Prototype , , 4 , , IV and IVa had a fuselage. , - ,

Horten H.V The Horten H.V was a delta-winged, tail-less, twin-engined motor-glider designed and built in the late 1930s and early 1940s by Walter and Reimar Horten in Germany. The H.V aircraft were used for various experimental duties, including: innovative ...

a, b, c , , Germany , , Propeller , , Experimental , , 1937 , , Prototype , , 2 , , Twin engined , - , Horten H.VII , , Germany , , Propeller , , Trainer , , 1942 , , Prototype , , 2 , , Twin engined , - ,

Horten Ho 229 The Horten H.IX, RLM designation Ho 229 (or Gotha Go 229 for extensive re-design work done by Gotha to prepare the aircraft for mass production) was a German prototype fighter/bomber initially designed by Reimar and Walter Horten to be built ...

(H.IX) , , Germany , , Jet , , Fighter , , 1944 , , Prototype , , n/a , , Two flown , - , Horten H.X , , Germany , , Jet , , Fighter , , , , Project , , 0 , , , - , Horten H.XI , , Germany , , Glider , , , , , , , , n/a , , , - , Horten H.XII , , Germany , , Propeller , , Experimental , , 1944 , , Project , , 0 , , Powered H IVb with laminar flow wing , - , Horten H.XIV , , Germany , , Glider , , Experimental , , 1945 , , , , n/a , , , - , Horten H.XVIII , , Germany , , Jet , , Bomber , , 1945 , , Project , , 0 , , , - ,

Horten Parabola is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the town of Åsgårdstrand an ...

, , Germany , , Glider , , Experimental , , 1938 , , Project , , 0 , , Built but not flown. , - ,

Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel The Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel is an American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by Lockheed Martin and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). While the USAF has released few details ...

, , US , , UAV , , Reconnaissance , , 1991 , , Production , , 20 ca. , , , - ,

McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II The McDonnell Douglas/General Dynamics A-12 Avenger II was a proposed American attack aircraft from McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics. It was to be an all-weather, carrier-based stealth bomber replacement for the Grumman A-6 Intruder in t ...

, , US , , Jet , , Attack , , 2007 , , Project , , 0 , , , - ,

Northrop B-2 Spirit The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses. A subsonic flying ...

, , US , , Jet , , Bomber , , 1989 , , Production , , 21 , , , - ,

Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider The Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is an American strategic bomber under development for the United States Air Force (USAF) by Northrop Grumman. As part of the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) program, it is to be a long-range, stealth intercon ...

, , US , , Jet , , Bomber , , Current , , Project , , 0 , , , - , Northrop N-1M , , US , , Propeller , , Experimental , , 1940 , , Prototype , , 1 , , , - ,

Northrop N-9M The Northrop N-9M was an approximately one-third scale, span all-wing aircraft used for the development of the full size, wingspan Northrop XB-35 and YB-35 flying wing long-range, heavy bomber. First flown in 1942, the N-9M (M for Model) was th ...

, , US , , Propeller , , Experimental , , 1942 , , Prototype , , 4 , , , - ,

Northrop XP-79 The Northrop XP-79, USAAF project number MX-365, was an ambitious design for a flying wing fighter aircraft, designed by Northrop. It had several notable design features; among these, the pilot would operate the aircraft from a lying position, ...

, , US , , Jet , , Fighter , , 1945 , , Prototype , , 1 , , , - , Northrop XB-35 & YB-35 , , US , , Propeller , , Bomber , , 1945 , , Prototype , , n/a , , , - ,

Northrop YB-49 The Northrop YB-49 was an American prototype jet-powered heavy bomber developed by Northrop Corporation shortly after World War II for service with the United States Air Force. The YB-49 featured a flying wing design and was a turbojet-powered ...

, , US , , Jet , , Bomber , , 1947 , , Prototype , , 3 , , Converted YB-35. , - ,

Northrop Grumman Switchblade The Northrop Grumman Switchblade was a proposed variable sweep oblique wing unmanned aerial vehicle studied by Northrop Grumman for the United States. The programme was cancelled in 2008, without any aircraft having flown. History During WWI ...

, , US , , Jet , , UAV , , 2008 , , Project , , 0 , , , - ,

NRC tailless glider The NRC tailless glider, also called the NRL tailless glider, was a two-seat tailless research glider designed by the National Research Council of Canada and built by the National Research Laboratories, at the instigation of G.T.R. Hill who had ...

, , Canada , , Glider , , Research , , 1946 , , Prototype , , 1 , , , - , Putilov Stal-5 , , USSR , , Propeller , , Transport , , 1933 , , Project , , 0 , , 18 passengers, scale model flown 1935. , - ,

Saegheh The Saegheh ("Lightning" or "Thunder" in Persian) (also spelled Saegre, Saeghe, Saeqeh, etc.) is any of at least eight completely separate Iranian weapons systems: a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) warhead, an anti-tank guided missile family, a s ...

, , Iran , , Jet , , UAV , , 2018 , , Production , , n/a , , , - , Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik , , Russia , , Jet , , UAV , , 2019, , Prototype, , 1 , , stealth , - ,

Vought V-173 The Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake" was an American experimental test aircraft built as part of the Vought XF5U program during World War II. Both the V-173 and the XF5U featured an unorthodox "all-wing" design consisting of flat, somewhat disk-sha ...

, , US , , Propeller , , Experimental , , 1942 , , Prototype , , 1 , , Circular wing. , - ,

Vought XF5U The Vought XF5U "Flying Flapjack" was an experimental U.S. Navy fighter aircraft designed by Charles H. Zimmerman for Vought during World War II. This unorthodox design consisted of a flat, somewhat disc-shaped body (hence its name) serving as ...

, , US , , Propeller , , Fighter , , 1947 , , Project , , 0 , , Failed to fly

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