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tail fin

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tail fin [′tāl ‚fin]
(aerospace engineering)
A fin at the rear of a rocket or other body.


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The automatic anti-collision system on a DHL Boeing 757 also instructed its pilots to descend to the same level and the Boeing's tail fin sliced open the Russian jet.
After receipt of our JDAM tail fin kits in late October, my munitions crew produced sufficient quantities of the new JDAM to support our mission requirements in only 24 hours.
5 -- 6 -- color) Cameras on SpaceShipOne show pilot Mike Melvill, with weightless M&M candies in the air, and a tail fin of the rocket plane.
 
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