Abstract: An engine inlet having strakes for landing speed reduction on a trapezoidal wing shaped aircraft, specifically the T-38. The strakes are mounted on the engine inlet just forward of the wing leading edge and well above the wing plane. The preferred strakes have an area greater than 3% of the wing area and are uncanted with respect to the wing. Use of the strakes forstalls wing buffet, yet exhibits well behaved longitudinal stability at high angles of attack thereby allowing operation of the aircraft at higher angles of attack and associated higher coefficients of lift, such as during landing, resulting in a reduction of the landing speed of the aircraft. Various strakes in the placement thereof are disclosed.