Examples of 'empennage' in a sentence

Meaning of "empennage"

Empennage is the rear part of an aircraft, such as a tail assembly, that helps stabilize and control the plane during flight
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  • The tail assembly of an aircraft.
  • The feathers of an arrow or the tail fins of a bomb or rocket used to stabilize the longitudinal axis of the projectile parallel to the flight path.

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The empennage had double tail fins.
The fuselage tapered rearwards to a cantilever empennage.
The empennage included a sizable ventral fin.
It also had minor fuselage and empennage improvements.
The empennage was separated from the fuselage.
Further aft the fuselage tapered to a conventional empennage.
The empennage was mounted on twin booms linked by a tailplane.
There are four control surfaces mounted at the empennage.
Fit the empennage to the fuselage.
Level with the launcher empennage.
Construction of the empennage was similar to that of the wing.
Actuating device for displacing a part of the empennage of a helicopter.
The empennage was unusual in two ways.
They did not have empennage or tail.
The empennage was mounted on a boom behind the fuselage.

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Rear fuselage and empennage.
The fuselage and empennage was built in a similar way.
Overall view of the empennage.
The empennage is coupled in a similar way.
The conventional layout of an aircraft has wings ahead of the empennage.
The empennage is of sheet metal.
The fuselage also twisted longitudinally just before the empennage.
The fuselage and empennage have a steel alloy structure.
This pontoon extended rearwards and carried the conventional empennage.
The empennage was conventional.
Propulsion is provided by a propeller driven pusher engine mounted at the empennage.
The empennage consists of a single vertical tail with a hinged rudder.
Helicopter includes a tail and an empennage located at the end of the tail.
Yakovlev handled design and manufacturing of the forward fuselage and empennage.
Half the empennage just sheared off into the sea.
Most designs were based on straight wings with extended empennage and stabilizers.
This feature avoided empennage buffet when the dive brakes were open.
The aerofoils concerned are preferably the wings or the empennage of the aircraft.
One control surface at the empennage is deleted and the rest three were enlarged.
Right before the entrance looking from the empennage to the nose.
This allowed the elaborate biplane empennage to be replaced by a more conventional monoplane tailplane.
The only part of the aircraft which remained partially intact was the empennage.
The horizontal tail structure of the empennage consists of the horizontal stabilizer and the elevator.
The same is therefore true for the angular setting θC of said canard empennage.
All of the fuselage and empennage apart from the rear control surfaces was ply skinned.
The fuselage diminishes in area towards the rear and finishes in the empennage.
The stripes on the empennage symbolize the origin and the name of American.
Engine oil was cooled in a similar manner using channels in the fuselage and empennage skins.
The empennage was of wooden construction, canvas covered.
CASA would build the wings and empennage.
The empennage featured a twin-tail arrangement.
It landed without an empennage to slow it down?
The empennage was a steel tube structure, fabric covered.
It was a two-seat aircraft with a gull wing and conventional empennage.
However, the empennage has been severely altered.

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