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tailplanes

tailplanes is the plural of tailplane.

Meaning of tailplane

Noun

tailplane (plural tailplanes)

  1. A horizontal airfoil, at the rear of an aircraft, to which the elevator is attached; usually associated with the tailfin.

Questions about tailplanes

What is tailplanes the plural of?
Tailplanes is the plural of tailplane.

Words near tailplanes in the dictionary

  1. tailpipe
  2. tailpiped
  3. tailpipes
  4. tailpiping
  5. tailplane
  6. tailplanes
  7. tailplug
  8. tailplugs
  9. tailpole
  10. tailpoles
  11. tailrace

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailplanes (page history and authors); tailplane (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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