Recognition

Long sleek fuselage with a large swept tail fin and rudder. Relatively short-span swept wings are shoulder-mounted on the fuselage. The internal jet engines have intakes either side of the fuselage behind the cockpit, with their top surfaces forming an extension of the wing. The rear jetpipes are located forward and below the tailplane (1) which has marked anhedral (downward slope). The raised bubble canopy is set above the sharply-pointed 'chisel' nose (2). The twin mainwheels of the undercarriage retract into the fuselage (3). Two-seater aircraft have no radar and, as a consequence of accommodating the second pilot, a much larger canopy and small, pointed nose (4).

In Flight