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tailplanes

n. (plural of tailplane English)

Usage examples of "tailplanes".

The grey camouflage paint of the after fuselage and tailplanes was riddled with bullet and cannon shells, an aileron was shredded and the port outer engine out of commission, saturated in oil.

The tailplanes of the two helicopters were too high, so he concentrated on the cockpit areas at the front, the Sandcruiser's eight tons of armoured steel crumpling the perspex with ease.

The morning sunlight glanced off the windows of the terminal, highlighted the arrogant tailplanes of perhaps a dozen airliners.

Each drops a long skinny egg and then their tailplanes visibly move and they angle upwards and pass overhead.