"I didn't allow for the fact that the
tail fin was actually part of the main fuselage.
Norwegian has announced it has unveiled its newest
tail fin hero that honors Harvey Milk, the eighth American to be immortalized on a Norwegian aircraft, the company said.
She is Norwegian's sixth British
tail fin hero, following on from rock legend Freddie Mercury, footballer Bobby Moore, children's author Roald Dahl, pioneering aviator Amy Johnson and aviation entrepreneur Sir Freddie Laker.
White noticed an excessively loose captive CATM-9M
tail fin. Upon inspection he identified one of four bolts missing used to attach the
tail fin assembly to the missile body.
Officials said a problem with a
tail fin caused the missile-like vehicle to fly out of control before the main engine could be ignited, leading researchers to destroy it early.
The refurbishment of the four-hangar facility means that the airline can now accommodate the aircraft indoors and more than 138 tonnes of steelwork were added to the facility's roof in order to fit in the aircraft's 78.7ft (24m)-high
tail fin. Ten wide-bodied aircraft can also fit into a new docking solution and a second bay is due in April
With the arrival of 12 A380s from 2013 the entrance to two of the hangars needed to be raised by a further 3.5 metres, from their current height of nearly 23 metres, to accommodate the larger
tail fin of the aircraft.
The
tail fin of teleost is composed of structural units named rays or lepidotrichia surrounded by a multilayered epidermis (Montes et al., 1982; Becerra et al., 1983).