“empennage”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

empennage

释义

empennage|ɛmˈpɛnɪdʒ|
[Fr., f. empenner to feather (an arrow).]
An arrangement of stabilizing planes at the stern of an aeroplane or airship; also, the tail-surfaces or tail-plane. Also transf. and fig.
1909A. Berget Conquest of Air ii. i. 132 The empennage will comprise a surface placed well to the rear of the sustaining surface..to which it will be joined.1911Aero Nov. 232/1 The construction of the empennage or fixed ‘non-lifting’ tail plane.1912S. L. Walkden Aeroplanes in Gusts xii. 95 This..only defines the path AH more obstinately than before, unless the empennage is made with considerable spread in the fore-and-aft direction.1926Chambers's Jrnl. 580/1 In every aeroplane the tail unit or ‘empennage’ comprises the rudder,..the elevators,..and the fin.1927E. W. Springs Nocturne Militaire viii. 258 They vibrated like a hula dancer's empennage.1959New Scientist 7 May 1014/1 An empennage that could serve a satellite as a rudder.

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