What is "tail fins"

Usage examples of "tail fins".

He traveled American-flag carriers mainly for that reason, certainly not because he liked the sight of the Stars and Stripes on the tail fins of the aircraft.

There was also an amphibious version of the harrar, which appeared to be a one-ton or more lump of gray or black with dorsal and tail fins, little beady eyes, a big, big mouth—.

Just as we had almost reached its broad tail fins it saw something it wanted and surged away, but a moment later it was knocked back by a more aggressive companion.

Just as we had almost reached its broad tail fins it saw some-thing it wanted and surged away, but a moment later it was knocked back by a more aggressive companion.

It was a big, crippled aerostat, with twisted tail fins and an engine that had not moved in years.

Then, when their engines came alive, flinging them into the nullvoid at hundreds of times the speed of light, they would instantly convert themselves into sleek rapiers sprouting long, aggressive forward-swept tail fins.

Then it turned, hovered for a few moments, flipped its tail fins and came at them with phenomenal speed in a movement dead silent, straight for the kill.

The least exhausted of the groundcrew might have noticed that the arming devices and tail fins had not yet been attached to the bombs.

Then the buffeting eased and the flight smoothed as the eight tail fins came around and the wind beat from astern.

I-S sits on her tail fins a year or so and then she promotes an investigation before the Board.

When the laser dot on which it tracked moved out of the center of its field of view, the entire seeker body moved itself and the plastic tail fins in the appropriate direction to bring the dot back where it belonged.