List of airplanes without flaps

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Some aircraft were designed without flaps for the sake of wing design simplicity or for aerodynamic reasons (the flaps on a delta wing would create a too strong nose-down momentum). Some of these aircraft are:

• Avro Vulcan

• B-58

• Commonwealth 185 'Skyranger'

• Concorde - As a result of the lack in flaps the designers equipped the Concorde with a dropping nose that drops during take-offs and landings. Because of this the Concorde is characterized by the high Angle of Attack and high speed landings.

• Eurofighter Typhoon

• Extra 300

• F-102

• F-106

• F-117A

• IAI Kfir

• IAI Lavi

• Mirage family (except for the Mirage F1)

• Piper J-3 'Cub'

• Pitts Special

• Rafale

• Saab fighters (Saab 35 Draken, Saab JA37 Viggen, JAS 39 Gripen)

• Su-26

• Tu-144