Originally Posted by
DozyWannabe
That's not a very nice way to talk about BA and AF's finest!
(Sorry, couldn't resist a feed like that) 
LOL !
True though... they're little more than two small flat surfaces... clearly marked "
NO STEP", so they're not even any use for standing on to clean the windows.
They look pretty insignificant, compared to the 'canards' of the Tu-144 or the big foreplanes on some other deltas, or the long forward wing extensions on aircraft like the F-16 and F-18, none of which have the same function.
And to be perfectly honest, I myself didn't know about their real function until after 2003, when I started delving into a lot of other technical aspects of 'our Lady'.
CJ