His torch roved over the ridiculously inadequate tail empennage facing them.

He stared up at the tail section, the empennage as someone called it, waiting to be consumed.

So the heat rejection complex waxed enormous and ended up growing generally aftward, like an empennage-thefeathers on the butt of an arrow.

When they were shot out of the tag stat's nose, they sprouted cruel barbs at the nose and a simple empennage at the tail.

Sometimes termed "tail-first" aeroplanes, but such term is erroneous, as in such a design the main lifting surface acts as, and is, the empennage.