The Shuttle, as it went up, and down, but not to a location (it has delta wings)?

Although I don't think of it as elegant, what about the Goblin parasite fighter for the B36 bomber.

What a dolt I am, of course, it's the Vulcan bomber, possibly the most beautiful aircraft ever, possibly the largest delta wing ever (forgetting the kink they added in later), and, when the chips were down, was expected to fly one-way missions to Russia.

You don't mean the Delta Dart, which is certainly a Delta, in more than one sense, and, in it's final configuration, was used a drone (hence, one-way).  However, the F-106 is not, in any sense, elegant, with that canopy!

The other option is the Mirage III, in which case, I guess you mean that it could be used for nuclear strike, which would indeed be a crisis, and a one-way flight.  Now, one could use the world elegant for the Mirage!

No, The "correct line" with the Vulcan was the one way nuclear strike. Although smaller than the Vulcan, this aircraft is very much the bomber as opposed to some small fry fighter with a strap on nuclear toy.

One part of osher's last answer is nearly on the money.  

osher wrote:

You don't mean the B-1?

doubt it as its not a delta

there cant be that many delta wing bombers lol what kind of era are we talkin?

Gloster Javelin?

Didn't expect to get that one right hehe. Ok for the next one, a two parter.

What type of aircraft was sent out from the task force that was to attack Pearl Harbor for reconnaissance, and what were the names of the two ships from which these aircraft took off from?

Okay the two cruisers were the Tone and the Chikuma of the 8th Cruiser division and they both launched a single Aichi E13A1(Jake) for weather recon over Oahu

Okay here we go this aircraft was a variant of a failed russian bomber and was designed to carry rocket boosters and once even the russian space shuttle to the cosmodrome.

What was it the plane called and what was the name of the bomber it was based on?

If you don't get it I'll give you a hint later on.