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    Empennage (redirect from Tail assembly)
    vertically. An outboard tail is split in two, with each half mounted on a short boom just behind and outboard of each wing tip. It comprises outboard horizontal...
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    An outboard tail is a type of aircraft tail or empennage which is split in two, with each half mounted on a short boom just behind and outboard of each...
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    conventional tail and canard auxiliary surfaces. Modern examples include the Sukhoi Su-33, while pioneer examples include the Voisin-Farman I. Outboard tail: split...
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  • Flugzeugbau". www.der-wankelmotor.de. "Propeller spins with motor around tail boom". Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2020-01-27. Boeing...
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    An outboard motor is a propulsion system for boats, consisting of a self-contained unit that includes engine, gearbox and propeller or jet drive, designed...
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  • subsequently modified as the SL6, with its twin booms repositioned and an outboard tail fitted, to test yet another novel control system, this time being developed...
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    to feature the outboard tail was the P 208, a single-engined fighter with pusher propeller, swept wings allowing much shortened tail booms and with downturned...
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    However the glideslope is generally poor, at around 1:4. Addition of an outboard tail recovers energy from the wing tip vortices to significantly increase...
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    degree of redundancy: if one tail is damaged, the other may remain functional. Twin tails with canted fins lean outboard of the turbulence created by...
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    rear wing lower element, the effectiveness of which depended on a low outboard tail section, which was achieved by totally enclosing the driveshafts within...
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  • of B&V/HFB: Skoda-Kauba SK SL6, a modification of the SK V-6 with an outboard tail, to test the proposed control system for the P 208 tailless pusher fighter...
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  • replica. Other authors have stated that it was one of the series of outboard-tail "batwing" projects studied by B&V during 1944-45. Data from General...
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    (inboard) and Wright R-3350-21 (outboard) engines, three-bladed propeller, rounded, glassed nose, first two aircraft had a twin tail configuration. Second prototype...
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    forces acting on the wing resulted in an uncommanded retraction of the outboard slats. As the aircraft began to climb, the damaged left wing produced far...
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    SpaceShipTwo sub-orbital spaceplanes adopted twin booms with outboard tails or outboard horizontal stabilizers (OHS) to keep the airframe clear of the...
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    aerodynamic surface besides its main wing. It may still have a fuselage, vertical tail fin (vertical stabilizer), and/or vertical rudder. Theoretical advantages...
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    wing outboard of the cannon, and the 7.7 mm gun on the left side of the cowl was deleted. Four racks for rockets or small bombs were installed outboard of...
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    Delta wing (redirect from Tailed delta)
    stabilising surfaces. The long root chord of the delta wing and minimal area outboard make it structurally efficient. It can be built stronger, stiffer and at...
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  • ACME Anser (category V-tail aircraft)
    from NACA test tank data, boundary layer control system and a retractable outboard motor, for taxiing on water. The structure of the Anser was to have been...
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    began marketing the 170A, an all-metal 170 with zero-dihedral wing tapered outboard of the slightly-enlarged plain flaps with 50 degrees maximum deflection...
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    Bombardier Challenger 300 (category T-tail aircraft)
    wing is equipped with spoilers controlled via a fly-by-wire system: the outboard, multi-function spoilers act as spoilerons, augmenting roll control and...
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  • in the remaining yawing moments after failure of the left or the right (outboard) engine when all propellers rotate in the same direction due to the P-factor...
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    each inboard tank feeds the respective wing engine, and the two outboard tanks feed the tail engine via a flow equalizer.: 33  The additional center tank...
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    leading-edge modification, usually a lightly drooped outboard leading-edge extension. In most cases of outboard leading-edge modification, the wing cuff starts...
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    Exhaust system (redirect from Tail pipe)
    to cool a closed system of freshwater circulating within the engine. In outboard motors, the exhaust system is usually a vertical passage through the engine...
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    Hawker Typhoon (section Tail)
    inner sections had a 1° anhedral, while the outer sections, attached just outboard of the undercarriage legs, had a dihedral of 5+1⁄2°. The airfoil was a...
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    closest engine, but use slats outboard of the closest engine. The Boeing 727 also used a mix of inboard Krueger flaps and outboard slats, although it had no...
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    Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering a catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine due to an unnoticed manufacturing defect in the engine's fan...
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  • The term also applies to the lowest point on an outboard motor or the outdrive of an inboard/outboard. In more recent years, the name has been used for...
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  • geometry along the span such as the F4 Phantom II which had 15 degrees of outboard dihedral. Canards can also be analyzed in Digital DATCOM. The canard must...
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