"Now we know the recipe of how to fly without a vertical tail. Vertical tails, even for a passenger aircraft, are just a nuisance. It costs weight, which means fuel consumption, but also drag - it ...

A pigeon-inspired robot has solved the mystery of how birds fly without the vertical tail fins that human-designed aircraft rely on. Its makers say the prototype could eventually lead to passenger ...

Almanac: Tail fins On February 3, 1948, 71 years ago today, Cadillac is said to have produced its very first car featuring the tail fin. It would be the most controversial automotive styling note ...

I recently attended my first Tail Fin show. I don't know if this is one of the rites of passage that, in Detroit, anyway, signify when a boy truly becomes a man. In fact, I'm pretty sure it isn't ...

Investigators have uncovered problems with the tail fin of a second American Airlines Airbus A300 that experienced an in-flight disturbance, a discovery that could provide clues about what might ...

Tail & Fin on Saturday, July 22, 2017, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal @benjaminhphoto The pineapple bowl at Tail & Fin on Saturday, July 22, 2017, in Las Vegas.

Data Recovered From Flight 587 Could Mean That Fishtailing Motion Overstressed Tail Fin By J. Lynn Lunsford Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal Nov. 16, 2001 12:01 am ET Share ...

WASHINGTON — Investigators probing the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in November said Monday that they have found internal damage in the tail fin of another Airbus A300 jet, raising ...

The National Transportation Safety Board said it will ship the Airbus A300’s vertical tail fin and rudder to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., for testing.