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The term tail is a set of technical means by which liquid or gaseous media can be influenced.

Turbines

The term refers to a tail inserted in turbines and compressors, fixed radial grid of buckets that the flowing medium, either a spin move (turbine) or revoke (compressor ), also guide wheel, guide vanes or guide grid called.

Aircraft

The term refers to the tail of aircraft required to control components, such as the horizontal stabilizer, the rudder or ailerons. Generally there are heights and vertical tail fin of a fixed mounted on the movable surfaces are attached with hinges. If height or vertical tail with the entire surface - no fin - used to control, so these designs are referred to as stabilizer. The elevator is above the rudder, one speaks of the T-tail, it is located in front of the wings, as it is called canard.

Apply two inclined surfaces control the function of altitude and vertical tail, it is a butterfly -tail or V-tail, for example:

• Lockheed F -117 (Combat Aircraft )
• Fouga Magister ( trainer aircraft )
• Beechcraft Bonanza V 35 ( light aircraft )
• Robin ATL L ( light aircraft )
• Glass leaf H -101 Salto ( glider)
• Akaflieg München Mü -26 ( glider)

The arrangement of heights and fin on the fuselage is different due to aerodynamic or case -related requirements.

Waters

The term referred to tail in rivers Längsbauten, especially training dykes that provide at low water for the necessary water depth by limiting the riverbed. See also: river engineering.

Transport engineering

The term refers to a tail unit building at navigation locks, which leads retracting ships.