WASHINGTON — Federal air safety investigators said Thursday that they will ask NASA for help in determining why the tail fin of American Airlines Flight 587 broke off, an unusual step that ...

Air France tail fin recovered Nick Olle and wires Posted Mon 8 Jun 2009 at 3:17pm, updated Tue 9 Jun 2009 at 1:02am ...

The tail section is critical to flight because it provides stability and helps the pilots steer the plane. There are hundreds of KC-135s, RC-135s and WC-135s in the Air Force fleet.

Dec. 7 (UPI) --The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center received approval to enter the production phase for the B61-12 nuclear bomb's upgraded tail-fin assembly. The new phase, approved in late ...

As international air travel rebounds, The Straits Times goes plane spotting at Changi Airport, homing in on the tail fin designs of newer and lesser-known carriers.

Even if Flight 587's pilots were rough with the rudder, that should not have caused the tail fin to fall off, said David Stempler, president of the Air Travelers Association.

A tail rudder from the fastest airplane in the world could be yours — for a cool $1 million. The seller didn't say if it was a spare part, or if it was once part of a functioning SR-71 Blackbird ...

A U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft assigned to the 968th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron conducts aerial operations within the U.S. Air Forces ...