Associations to the word «Empennage»

Wiktionary

EMPENNAGE, noun. The tail assembly of an aircraft.
EMPENNAGE, noun. The feathers of an arrow or the tail fins of a bomb or rocket used to stabilize the longitudinal axis of the projectile parallel to the flight path.

Dictionary definition

EMPENNAGE, noun. The rear part of an aircraft.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope