The V-tail or vee-tail (sometimes called a butterfly tail or Rudlicki's V-tail[citation needed]) of an aircraft is an unconventional arrangement of the...
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Empennage (redirect from Tail assembly)
The empennage (/ˌɑːmpɪˈnɑːʒ/ or /ˈɛmpɪnɪdʒ/), also known as the tail or tail assembly, is a structure at the rear of an aircraft that provides stability...
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Butterfly tail may refer to: V-tail, an arrangement of the tail on aircraft Butterfly tail (goldfish), a breed of goldfish Pelikan tail This disambiguation...
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Beechcraft Bonanza (redirect from Fork-tailed doctor killer)
been built, produced in both distinctive V-tail and conventional tail configurations; early conventional-tail versions were marketed as the Debonair. At...
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event of engine loss. The V-280 will have retractable landing gear, a triple-redundant fly by wire control system, and a V-tail configuration. The wings...
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Vertical stabilizer (redirect from Vertical tail)
A vertical stabilizer or tail fin is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft. The term is commonly applied to the assembly of both this fixed...
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form an empennage positioned at the tail of the aircraft. Other arrangements of the empennage, such as the V-tail configuration, feature stabilizers which...
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the original small V-tail surfaces. The Super-V competed with Beechcraft's own Travel Air twin-engine Bonanza derivative. The Super-V is an extensive conversion...
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Northrop Tacit Blue (category V-tail aircraft)
rounded-off rectangular shape), featured a straight tapered wing with a V-tail mounted on an oversized fuselage with a curved shape. It was the first stealth...
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Hawker Siddeley P.1017 (category V-tail aircraft)
change the thrust vectoring. The aircraft had a T-shaped tail, although a version with a V-tail was also developed. Hawker's Secret Projects: Cold War Aircraft...
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Rutan Long-EZ and SpaceShipOne. The V-22 Osprey uses a twin tail arrangement. Cruciform tail Pelikan tail T-tail V-tail Schiff, Barry: Flying, page 15. Golden...
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on take-off and landing. Cruciform tail Pelikan tail Twin tail V-tail Hans Multhopp, a pioneer user of the T-Tail concept near World War II's end Smith...
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Guizhou WZ-7 Soaring Dragon (category V-tail aircraft)
operational WZ-7 has a significantly modified shape. The single vertical tail on the prototype was changed to a pair of canted tails. A turbofan engine...
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Boeing MQ-25 Stingray (category V-tail aircraft)
fuselage shaping, flush inlet to shield engine blades from radar, and a V-tail. Images of an MQ-25 model released in April 2024 showed AGM-158C LRASM anti-ship...
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conventional empennage, the Su-75 has a v-tail similar to that of Northrop YF-23. Instead of a set of elevators and a tail separately controlling pitch and yaw...
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Swearingen Metroliner, and the Rockwell B-1 Lancer. Pelikan tail T-tail Twin tail V-tail "Cruciform tail Pros and Cons". thoracentesis.science. Archived from...
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ACME Anser (category V-tail aircraft)
skin panels. The tail unit was to have been a simplified light-alloy built-up structure with a plastic foam core mounting a V-tail and housing the retractable...
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Northrop YF-23 (category V-tail aircraft)
that balanced stealth and maneuverability with diamond wings, all-moving V-tail "ruddervators" (or butterfly tails), engine exhaust troughs, and aligned...
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DRS Sentry HP (category V-tail aircraft)
the Sentry HP is a completely different machine, with a broad wing and a V tail. The Sentry HP is larger, with greater payload capacity and an underwing...
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Sonex Aircraft Sonex (category V-tail aircraft)
Almost identical to the Sonex, but features a Y-tail. Although similar in looks to a V-tail, the Y-tail has a stub rudder in line with the aft fuselage...
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his flight test work on the plane. The V-Jet II was an all-composite structure with a forward-swept wing, a V-tail, each fin of which was mounted on the...
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Blohm & Voss P 213 (category V-tail aircraft)
conventional high-wing monoplane with unswept, tapered wings and an inverted v-tail. The pilot was positioned just in front of the wing, the jet intake in the...
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Zeppelin Fliegende Panzerfaust (category V-tail aircraft)
the Fliegende Panzerfaust was a small aircraft with an armored nose, a v-tail, a wingspan of 4.5 m and a length of 6.0 m. This Zeppelin-built aircraft...
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Fouga CM.170 Magister (category V-tail aircraft)
aircraft manufacturer Établissements Fouga & Cie. Easily recognizable by its V-tail, almost 1,000 have been built in France and under license in West Germany...
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Tervamäki ATE-3 (category V-tail aircraft)
to increase its dynamic stability. They chose a V-tail to give the aircraft the largest practical tail surfaces while still preserving sufficient clearance...
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decks. Much of the aircraft's features, including its unorthodox V-tail (or "butterfly tail") and its thin straight wing, were shared with this ancestor;...
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The Heinkel He P.1079 was a projected German V-tail all weather jet fighter designed by Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in the closing stages of World War II. The...
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Sonex Aircraft Teros (category V-tail aircraft)
Sciences Corporation. The NASC Teros UAS is a single-engine, low wing, V tail monoplane developed by Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation in collaboration...
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Cephalopholis urodeta (redirect from V Tail Grouper)
chevron rockcod, duskyfin hind, duskyfin rockcod, flagtail grouper or V-tail grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily...
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