Why? A vertical stabilizer, often referred to as the 'tail fin,' is fitted to the aircraft's rear. This, along with the horizontal stabilizers, makes up the empennage. The vertical stabilizer is ...

Dive teams returned to the Hudson River on Saturday to try to recover the final pieces of wreckage from Thursday's fatal ...

The helicopters tail unit is mounted high with a pair of non-moving horizontal stabilizers mounted below ... in the medical evacuation capacity. The aircraft body has access doors mounted on ...

The Bering Air flight that recently crashed in ... titanium panels along the leading edges of the wings, horizontal and vertical stabilizers, and wing struts." "The TKS system was designed to ...