Delta Wing Fighters: Rise, Fall and Comeback - Rafale, Gripen, Eurofighter Typhoon, Mirage etc. 

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Very good explanation of the delta wings pro's and con's. Best regards from an aeronautical engineer. Keep the good work up!

This is only the second channel I've come across that goes into this kind of detail (about a military/aerospace topic). The other one's in Hindi so this is a welcome change!!

"Why do some planes have triangle wings?" "Because I'm your father, that's why!"

Very well explained. Been a fan since the very beginning,nice to see that you've grown.

The F4 Phantom was not really a delta wing or delta platform was it?

Haha, You are a great man. It is not about knowledge or plane but about the child you are able to keep in youself for this long. The explanation is right on the mark. Keep making videos sir, sooner or later you will become a big star👍

Discussing military technology while processing childhood trauma? I cannot possibly love this channel more!

Two best(and most beautiful) deltas gotta be the sleek Draken and vigorous Viggen.

I am the largest delta winged fighter ever built. I was the first aircraft to use fly-by-wire and I was also the first combat aircraft with an internal weapons bay. What's my name?

I would lake an explanation of how the wing of F-4 Phantoms can be construed to be a "delta planform" wing.

DUDE! I would pay to learn about aerodynamics from a Master Course from you!!!

Old fighter pilot's joke: the reason the MiG-19 had such large wing fences was to keep the airflow from defecting to the tips! 😉

Sir, thank you for an interesting and informative video. 1 - Superficial stuff: Your accent's fine, don't take any notice of the criticisms. Plenty of British speak much worse than you do! I don't mind the music except for the early blast which made me tear off my headphones. 2 - Technical stuff: I appreciated your explanations. two points, however: (i) I didn't see you address "Flat plate drag". I refer particularly to the entry into a loop. When the nose is first raised the aircraft at first continues straight ahead before responding to the forces of the control surfaces. This true of all wings of course, but the larger area of the delta incurs a greater drag and loss of energy at this point. (ii) Incidentally the Phantom isn't delta winged. 3 - I refrain from the "we invented it first" argument. I expect the Germans (Lipisch) invented it in terms of a serious research. There was undoubtedly cross-pollination throughout with the British research prototypes such as the Boulton Paul P111 , Handley Page P115, Fairey Delta-1, three different Avro prototypes 707A-B-C as part of the Vulcan programme, Fairey Delta-2 and the EFA program which led into the Typhoon. I mention however that Dassault joined the EFA programme at its outset, but left when they were not allowed to run the program and commit it to the SNECMA engine. So they had access to all the above information. Finally, I repeat my appreciation of this video. Thank you. Regards, Clive.

Nice video sir thank you .

This is very good content! I'm happy to have found your channel!

Subsribed! A very good video! Thanks for explaining lucidly. It would be great if you could include explanation for compound delta wings also like Viggen, F-16 XL, LCA Tejas.

I was a nearsighted child aviation lover, and as I peered closely, the models I was gluing together got all wavy, and made me question why things were so wavy... But my favorite model was hands down the Convair B-58 Hustler. So beautiful with that coke bottle waist...

What about the B-58 hustler? The pro's and con's. Conceptually it seemed like a good design, fast, high altitude, but it wasn't reliable. It had a lot of crashes.

Please cover LCA Tejas as well.It is one of very recent(to be injected in service) delta wing plane.

I love the intensity and emotionality when you say my mom at 0:16. Are you sure F-4 is a delta plane?

phantom is a delta ?may bee a bent up delta f 102/106 is what you want to hunt mig 21s

Good stuff. I always have to explain the importance of aerodynamics to people that think that TWR is the only thing that makes a plane go fast or do impressive manouvers.

It's a great docco, but that irritating, twiddly music is driving me nuts!

What about Tejas Mk1? Its wing root leading edge has a sweep of 50 degrees, the outer wing leading edge has a sweep of 62.5 degrees, and trailing edge has a forward sweep of four degrees.

This is the best aerospace military content I have found. Subscribed! And thank you for your content.

Sir, please can you make an analysis of Indian jet LCA Tejas. I promise you will get lots of fans and subscribers from India.

I just came across this channel...& I found it amazing....esp the way he explains.🙏 Already subscribed it.

An excellent explanation of the aerodynamics of delta wing fighters. Full marks.

I grew up around an airport, and so loved watching and listening to the aircraft taking off and flying. The wonderfull thunderous roar of the old Pratt & Whitney radial engines made. some time later i dad got a job at the airport and i would visit him in my school holidays and sit at the controls of comercial aircraft.I was trusted to not play with the control yokes or switches that were system critical. Fun.

Hi there new here, can you suggest me books on how fighter jets are designed?

I had no ideas about delta wings , but you explained everything very nicely . I am not science student but very much interested in aircraft or defence things .

thanks sir 💕💓💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 from bangladesh -- i am ali newaz of narayanganj kodomtoli/merajnagar/c blok //// bangladesh open university

Thanks! DUDE! I would love to see a Master Class on Aerodynamics from you! Especially on modern fighter jets! You are AWESOME!!!

Think about the landing speed... 330kph/205mph.... That is hauling ass for a landing speed....

Like so many of us.... you fell in love with aircraft and aviation at a very young age. A few years ago, my mom gave my sister and I everything she had saved of ours growing up. My chest was full of airplanes, drawings of airplanes, pieces of old airplanes and books on airplanes. I was fortunate to fly commercially for about 10 years before losing my FAA medical. Wish I had gotten my A&P along with my ATP etc. Great video.

Very nice video....but request remove/reduce the background music for better assimilation...thanks for such a well explained topic

00:25 My childhood in a nutshell. So many questions, so few answers. UNTIL NOW.

Terrific video. A little note ... Dassault is not pronounced like the English ''assault"" with a ''D'' in front. It is pronounced as ''Dasso'' with a long ''o''.

Alternative to the variable sweep wing fighters... Equally as aerodynamic or even more efficient than the variable sweep wing concepts of the transformer era... Reason why logical developers the world over don't follow in the F-14/F-111's footsteps besides the USSR and PANAVA (developer of the Tornado) who did it purely because of industry competitiveness.

HI, , Greeting from Brazil ( deeply south). Go ahead!

I love that picture of the Fly by wire demonstrator. If you look closely at the open panels, you'll see the DSKY. That F-8 demonstrator aircraft actually used the Apollo Guidance Computer.

FINALLY I found a video like this, no idea why youtube couldn't show this to me when I searched for it

Did I hear you correctly at 15:30? Minimum speed of 100km/h? That seems excessively slow for such an aircraft?

Excellent. Finally someone explains how and why delta wings work. Thank you.

Hi, I struggled to understand your accent, so I turned captions on. Only Google struggled, too. Much hilarity ensued. Apparently, the salt, while designing airplanes, wanted more sleep, but twin wings way more, so he controlled the lanes with elephants... which is weird, because elephants aren't know for their slim figure and low weight, I don't think.

F102? Very good explanation but ignores USAF prior art

Brilliant video! Your concise explanation of a very complex topic reflects a deep understanding.

Love your pictures... piece of art knowledge. Thnks

I wonder why the Flying Wing or lifting bodies never revolutionized the commercial airplane market. The design can carry more passengers and fuel.

Sweden Manage to Manufacture a Mach2 Double delta Jetfighter in 1955

The F4 Phantom is a most intriging design. with multiple points of dehedrel and anhedral both on the wings and horizontal tail surfaces. very goofy looking?

Our very own F-16 came close to being adopted as a delta wing aircraft. It was literally bigger and better. All it needed was canards and a separate tail and people willing to train with it and work in it. But it was deemed too expensive and a headache. Like all good ideas the US government scrapped.

Delta wing advocate keep avoiding this. Delta platforms has the worst L/D lift to drag ratio, particularly with increasing angle of attack.

I really liked the video.1 thing though Dassault 2:55 is not pronounced like that, it's just "daso" 2:55 (like renault is just "reno")

May I recommend that you taket a look att the SAAB J35 Draken (Dragon) with double delta wing

Tejas fighter jet is also using delta wing

The Mirage1 was Australias first operational supersonic fighter. it always surprises me how small it was, still does.

Gripen clearly leads the pack. Viggen also speaks loud and clear. IKEA does make plenty sense.

Love the effort. Got yourself a new sub.

Delta wings are so good they are not failure mirage rafale gripen eurofighter j 10 j 20 kfir cheatah etc...

CF 105 Avro Arrow was the first FBW jet aircraft in 1959. also a delta.

F-15 is Mach 2.5 without a Delta wing? But I think the sr-71 is Delta wing.

An incredible video, but music is too much louder than the voice. I had to crank it up almost to max to hear you in the beginning, and that intro punched me in the ears.

Interesting and informative video but the background music cuts through the speech to much. If you have the slightest hearing problem, that makes it very hard to hear the narrator.

Mille grazie! Excellent video! Your knowledge of, and passion for the subject shine through- I particularly enjoyed your excellent drawings, and would very much like to see more of them. Did you draw the aircraft freehand or trace them? I have a feeling you drew them, as there is a strong similarity of both style & level of detail. Again, it would be great to see more of them! Your technical drawings are also excellent, and greatly help to visualize some of the complex concepts presented here- it was fun to see the ease with which you quickly and accurately created them. Do you have a background in technical drawing or industrial design, or have you just been drawing aircraft since you were young? Allora- While I read the comments and your responses about the SAAB J35 Draken, I would politely request that it, and the F16 XL and other ‘hybrid’ delta wing aircraft might deserve a video of their own. Even if it is a more simplistic look at a potentially interesting ‘variation on a theme’ due to a lack of data- surely there must be enough information to clarify (or speculate) what the advantages and disadvantages are (lower landing speeds, f. ex.)? Perhaps if you were to include variable-geometry wings or some of the lesser known Soviet delta designs it could make for a comprehensive video. Thanks again!

Was the XB-70 the first delta with canards, 1961?

Excellent Content, love the tracing paper talks, brings me back in time.

Please get a Mike... your voice doesn't reach ears ..even in headphones.

Poor kid. But that kid is going places, good or bad, but places.

Thank you for your channel. When we say the delta gives high drag at high Cl, aren't we really saying that the span loading is high? A conventional planform would behave the same way if it had such a short span. The delta lets us meet low speed and maneuvering requirements because of its high area and low parasitic drag, but don't we still need span to keep the drag down at high G's?

please lower music background in future videos :( , or send me the voiceover for post ill do it for free !

I couldn't help but notice that the Convair XF-92, the first delta-wing aircraft to fly was not mentioned. Neither was the discovery of the Area Rule by Convair engineers, neither was the first operational Delta wing jet fighter, the F-102 of the USAF.

a fighter jet colouring book sounds very boring, all of them are grey

I can see structural engineering advantages to delta wings, as well. The airfoil is stiffened and supported for much more of it's area by the long attachment point to fuselage and the fuselage in turn is stiffened by the delta wing acting like a sort of triangular truss. Win-win and maybe increasing the critical loading on the whole unit...

1:45 Of course it goes back to Germany like every other cool military tecs

Israely f 15 also shoot down mig 29 so yeah migs are made for target. Kekeke

Please explain the F-35 to me. How can the F-35B, STOVL, perform its ground support job with the same wing as the F-35A's air superiority wing??? They have different roles that operate at different altitudes AND different speeds. How could the same wing do both? Or, does it do neither very well??

k.i.s.s. seems the designers of the gripen payed attention to that. america learn the lesson.

The dad answer funny.

F-106 Delta Dart is one of my favourite jets, and my favourite Delta Wing

please no musique when im trying to understand what are u saying.

Why deltas are good for "bat turns" but not so good at sustained turns, bleeding a lot of energy? Thats stated by several F16 pilots that flown Mirages for example, saying that in the furball (dogfight) conventional wings tend to be better...is that true anyway?

It is hard to understand you with all that music playing.

Best video intro ever.

what software are you using for your CAD designs

The Typhoon leans back a lot during slow speeds though.

I sure like the delta wings... but the Tornado is a boss

Very educational!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why there are not any variable sweep wing fighters anymore ?

Thos channel deserves more subscribers. Its excellent.

Your explanations are wonderfull

Cant Believe you left out the SAAB Draken

Dude is such a typical Frenchy, believes the Rafale is the best thing invented by mankind and that Dassault is god's gift.

Just a great orientation in aerodynamics!!

Novi Avion would have been a Delta Wing too.

Delta is very aerodinamic design

Mirage was made for high altitude, vertical envelope fight. The F16, on the horizontal, and of course, the pilot would own it, however.

What causes the airflow to leak into a vortex? Is it the swept angle or the airfoil? Okay nvm it’s because of the sharp leading edge that causes flow separation which allows the higher pressure air on the bottom of the airfoil to leak to the top and rotate.

thank you for the video! i hope the low numbers of views do not discourage you from continuing!