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Avro RJ-85 of SN Brussels Airlines (Belgium) McDonnell Douglas MD-90 Piper PA-44-180 Seminole Grob G 109 motor glider Beechcraft 1900D of the Swiss Air Force T-tail of aircraft . A T-tail is an empennage configuration in which the tailplane of an aircraft is mounted to the top of the fin. The arrangement looks like the capital letter T, hence ...
The empennage of an Atlas Air Boeing 747-200. The empennage (/ ˌ ɑː m p ɪ ˈ n ɑː ʒ / or / ˈ ɛ m p ɪ n ɪ dʒ /), also known as the tail or tail assembly, is a structure at the rear of an aircraft that provides stability during flight, in a way similar to the feathers on an arrow.
Twin-tail aircraft (244 P) V. V-tail aircraft (1 C, 186 P, 1 F) X. X-tail aircraft (3 P) Pages in category "Aircraft tail configurations"
The placement of the remaining two engines varies. Most smaller aircraft, such as the Hawker Siddeley Trident and the Boeing 727, as well as the intermediate-sized Tupolev Tu-154, have two side-mount engine pylons in a T-tail configuration. The larger widebody Lockheed TriStar and DC-10/MD-11 mount an engine underneath each wing.
With 387 aircraft produced, the Avro RJ/BAe 146 is the most successful British civil jet airliner program. [1] The BAe 146/Avro RJ is a high-wing cantilever monoplane with a T-tail. It has four geared turbofan engines mounted on pylons underneath the wings, and has a retractable tricycle landing gear.
Pages in category "T-tail aircraft" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 394 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Aircraft tail configurations (8 C, 4 P) Tailless aircraft (2 C, 130 P, 2 F) Tractor aircraft (19 C, 4 P) Turret fighters (7 P) ... List of pusher aircraft by ...
Piaggio P.180 Avanti II empennage and delta fins (only one visible) Avanti II flight deck Clean configuration. A 1980s wave of new-generation planes, developed to appeal to Fortune 500 clients, included Piaggio's Avanti and Beech Aircraft Corp.'s very similar Starship.