Associations to the word «Empennage»

Wiktionary

EMPENNAGE, noun. The tail assembly of an aircraft.
EMPENNAGE, noun. The feathers of an arrow or the tail fins of a bomb or rocket used to stabilize the longitudinal axis of the projectile parallel to the flight path.

Dictionary definition

EMPENNAGE, noun. The rear part of an aircraft.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King