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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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Its design was driven mainly by the need to house the sinister B-52 Stratofortress, the long-range bomber famously used in Vietnam and the Gulf with a wingspan of 61m and a tailfin 16m high; but also by the desire to suspend some of the smaller aircraft, weighing up to 10 tonnes, from the roof.
Ehrenhalt begins by probing the folkways of Chicago during the tailfin age.
 
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