Tail of an Airplane The Tail of an airplane is arranged to resist the diving tendency of a plane. It is not meant to hold the lighter end of an airplane up in the air while in flight. The purpose of the horizontal fin of the tail is to hold it down. It is like a wing but set at a negative angle of attack so the air flow against the horizontal tail fin produces, in normal flight, a downward
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