Empennage

Empennage appears to be the standard word in English for "tail assembly" of an aircraft. It comes from French where it has apparenty the same meaning.

Lacet on French Wikipedia handles stability via a vertical fin.

Tangage on French Wikipedia handles stability via an horizontal fin.

References

This wiki has 2 patents in category "Empennage". Other techtypes related to Empennage: Empennage

Patents in category Empennage

• Patent FR-1910-416049 (English title: Airplane with rudder-balancer, Inventors: Hector-Georges Villeneuve, Filing date: 1910-03-31)
• Patent BE-1910-230659 (English title: Improvements to airplanes, Inventors: Jacques-Jules Sloan, Filing date: 1910-11-23)

Publications referring to Empennage

• Renard, 1904, L'empennage des carènes des ballons dirigeables (Simple title: The empennage of the hulls of airships, Journal: C. R. Acad. Sci. • Rev. Ind. • Le Gén. Civ.)
• Renard, 1904, Sur l'empennage des carènes des ballons dirigeables (Simple title: On the empennage of the hulls of dirigible balloons, Journal: C. R. Acad. Sci.)

Enclosing categories	Tail
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Keywords	Empennage, Tail assembly, Incidence, Stability, Control
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