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tail assembly

n. the rear part of an aircraft [syn: tail, empennage]

Usage examples of "tail assembly".

Working under the fluorescents, we reassembled and double-checked the tail assembly and unfolded the wings.

Situated on the creature's tail assembly are rows of bizarre-looking sensors that we believe are high-powered photovoltaic cells.

To her left, the wing and tail assembly were huge, blocky, black and white shapes.

Though the tail assembly of the aircraft was anything but intact, you could tell what it had once been, and the so-called black box-- actually painted Day-Glo orange--would be somewhere in there.

Though the tail assembly of the aircraft was anything but intact, you could tell what it had once been, and the so-called black box—.

The rest of the helicopter was in parts farther down, with seats, pieces of rotor, parts of the tail assembly, and more bodies strewn in between.

Brickman's craft had a boom running back from the centre section with a cruciform tail assembly mounted on the end.

Once more he inserted his hand into the manipulator control and very carefully used a sheetmetal shear to cut away the panel on the tapered tail assembly that covered the main fusing compartment.

The Doctor could see part of the tail assembly two hundred metres back, protruding from the foam like a shark's fin.

Several remote shards from the pods tail assembly accompany me, maneuvering independently.

The biggest inhabited continent reminded Sean of an old-fashioned, air-foil aircraft, flying northeast towards the polar ice cap with a second, smaller land mass providing its tail assembly.

It came to rest standing upright on the tips of the four sharply swept fins that formed its tail assembly, with the stern end of the main body of the ship still one hundred feet or more above the ice, dwarfing the platoon of Vegas that stood on one side like a welcoming guard of honor.

The box art had it right under the tail assembly, but Rodgers thought that was wrong.