Saturday, January 22, 2011

Empennage


Empennage is an aviation term used to describe the tail portion of an aircraft. The empennage is also known as the tail or tail assembly; all three terms may be interchangeably used. The empennage gives stability to the aircraft and controls the flight dynamics of pitch and yaw. In simple terms the empennage may be compared to the fletching of an arrow, colloquially, "tail feathers".

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