flying wing A flying wing is a tailless fixed-wing aircraft that has no definite fuselage, with its crew, payload, fuel, and equipment housed inside the main wing structure. A flying wing may have various small protuberances such as pods, nacelles, blis ...

is a type of tailless aircraft 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 The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 was an early flying wing aircraft designed and produced by British aircraft manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft. The A.W.52 emerged out of wartime research into the laminar flow airfoil, which indicated th ...

, , UK , , Jet , , Experimental , , 1947 , , Prototype , , 2 , , Twin engined. , - , BAE Systems Taranis , , UK , , Jet , , UAV , , 2013 , , Prototype , , n/a , , , - , Boeing Phantom Ray , , 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 in 1926. Development After Cheranovsky's first tailless flying wing gliders, the Cheranovsky BICh-1, BICh-1 and Cheranovsky BICh-2, BICh-2, he contin ...

, , 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 The Farrar V-1 Flying Wing is an American, single-seat, flying wing glider that was designed and constructed by Demetrius F. Farrar Jr. in 1962. Design and development The V-1 was an attempt to create a glider design based on the Northrop Cor ...

, , US , , Glider , , Homebuilt , , 1962 , , Prototype , , 1 , , , - ,

Freel Flying Wing The Freel Flying Wing was an experimental glider designed and built in the United States during the 1930s. Design and development The Freel Flying Wing was the creation of Charles Lewis Freel (b. 1916). As a student of San Diego High School, in ...

, , 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 The Horten H.IV was a German tailless flying wing glider in which the pilot was to lie in a prone position to reduce the frontal area, and hence drag. It was designed by Reimar and Walter Horten in Göttingen. Four were built between 1941 an ...

, , 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 The Horten H.VII was a flying wing fighter-trainer aircraft designed by the Horten brothers in Nazi Germany during World War II. Development The H.VII was originally allocated the ''Reichsluftfahrtministerium'' (RLM) designation 8-226, but was ...

, , 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 is a List of cities in Norway, town and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark Counties of Norway, county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town ...

, , Germany , , Propeller , , Experimental , , 1944 , , Project , , 0 , , Powered H IVb with laminar flow wing , - ,

Horten H.XIV 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 , , 1945 , , , , n/a , , , - ,

Horten H.XVIII The Horten H.XVIII was a proposed German World War II intercontinental bomber, designed by the Horten brothers. The unbuilt H.XVIII represented, in many respects, a scaled-up version of the Horten Ho 229, a prototype jet fighter. The H.XVIII was ...

, , Germany , , Jet , , Bomber , , 1945 , , Project , , 0 , , , - , Horten Parabola , , Germany , , Glider , , Experimental , , 1938 , , Project , , 0 , , Built but not flown. , - , Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel , , US , , UAV , , Reconnaissance , , 1991 , , Production , , 20 ca. , , , - , McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II , , 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 , , US , , Jet , , Bomber , , Current , , Project , , 0 , , , - ,

Northrop N-1M The Northrop N-1M (''Northrop Model 1 Mockup''), also known by the nickname "Jeep", is a retired American experimental aircraft used in the development of the flying wing concept by Northrop Aircraft during the 1940s. Design and development J ...

, , US , , Propeller , , Experimental , , 1940 , , Prototype , , 1 , , , - , Northrop N-9M , , US , , Propeller , , Experimental , , 1942 , , Prototype , , 4 , , , - , Northrop XP-79 , , 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 d ...

, , 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 The Stal-5 (''Stal'' – steel) was a transport aircraft designed in the USSR from 1933. Development In 1933 Putilov started the design of a flying wing 18 passenger transport with the intention of achieving very high levels of efficiency. The ...

, , USSR , , Propeller , , Transport , , 1933 , , Project , , 0 , , 18 passengers, scale model flown 1935. , - , Saegheh , , Iran , , Jet , , UAV , , 2018 , , Production , , n/a , , , - ,

Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik The Sukhoi S-70 ''Okhotnik-B'' (russian: Сухой С-70 "Охотник", , Hunter), also referred to as ''Hunter-B'', is a Russian stealth heavy unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) being developed by Sukhoi and Russian Aircraft Corporatio ...

, , 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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