Plural of empennage; multiple tail sections of aircraft.
From empennage + -s (plural marker). The plural form used when discussing multiple aircraft or their tail components.
Aviation engineers use this word constantly when designing fleets of planes, but it's one of those technical terms that sounds more exotic than it actually is—it's just fancy French for 'the feathery bits at the back.'
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