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Part of an aircraft
Answer for the clue "Part of an aircraft ", 8 letters:
tail fin
Word definitions for tail fin in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tail fin or tailfin may refer to: an airplane 's vertical tail an automobile tailfin a fish's caudal fin
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of tailfin English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane [syn: vertical stabilizer , vertical stabiliser , vertical fin , tailfin ] one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile [syn: tailfin , fin ] the ...
Usage examples of tail fin.
The TV reporters, with little else to do, kept telling their cameras to look at the tail fin.
True, the adrenalin was sufficient only to forestall such things rather than to invigorate him, but he was grateful, as he ducked his head through the crew door near the tail fin and directly adjacent to the huge RAF roundel on the fuselage.
Narros spoke in his own tongue, then slapped his powerful tail fin gently on the floor.
Its toothy jaws opened then clamped shut to grab half a struggling fish in one bite before disappearing from sight with a flick of its high tail fin.
Spray from the monster's tail fin that thrashed within the lake mixed with dust and shattered stone to rain down about them.