Delta wing facts for kids

A Mirage III tailless delta wing fighter

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

Convair made several supersonic deltas. This is an F-106 Delta Dart, a development of their earlier F-102 Delta Dagger
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde shows off its ogee wing
The Saab 35 Draken was a successful tailless double-delta design
The Eurofighter Typhoon has a canard delta wing configuration.
The Avro Vulcan bomber had a thick wing
The MiG-21 fighter had a conventional tail
The Saab Viggen pioneered the close-coupled canard
This hang glider is a relatively broad-span and lightly swept Rogallo delta