vertical tail

1. 1.

   the vertical airfoil in the tail assembly of an aircraft

   Broaderairfoil

   Part oftail

   Partsruddervertical stabilizer

Questions about vertical tail

What does vertical tail mean?

vertical tail means "the vertical airfoil in the tail assembly of an aircraft".

Is vertical tail a common word?

vertical tail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.