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A dive bomber is a bomber aircraft that dives directly at its targets in order to provide greater accuracy for the bomb it drops. Diving towards the target...

duck (Oxyura maccoa) is a stiff-tailed diving duck found across Eastern and Southern Africa. As members of the stiff-tailed duck group, Maccoas are often...

Dive brakes or dive flaps are deployed to slow down an aircraft when in a dive. They often consist of a metal flap that is lowered against the air flow...

construction, with cantilevered gull-wings, retractable landing-gear, all-moving-tail, dive air-brakes. Data from , Flugzeug-Typenbuch. Handbuch der deutschen Luftfahrt-...

The empennage (/ˌɑːmpɪˈnɑːʒ/ or /ˈɛmpɪnɪdʒ/), also known as the tail or tail assembly, is a structure at the rear of an aircraft that provides stability...

configuration with Junkers-flaps, retractable landing gear, all moving tail, dive air brakes, wood and steel body. Data from 75 Jahre 10 NI AKAFLIEG BERLIN...

its head in the sand and thereby raises the position of its tail relative to its body. Diving Regulations for U-boats. Berlin: Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine...

Whale tail is the Y-shaped rear portion of a thong or G-string when visible above the waistline of low-rise pants, shorts, or skirts that resembles a whale's...

A vertical stabilizer or tail fin is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft. The term is commonly applied to the assembly of both this fixed...

glider, cantilevered gull-wings, retractable landing-gear, all-moving-tail, dive air-brakes, all-wood Akaflieg Berlin B6 1938, single-seat performance...

The V-tail or vee-tail (sometimes called a butterfly tail or Rudlicki's V-tail[citation needed]) of an aircraft is an unconventional arrangement of the...

A twin tail is a type of vertical stabilizer arrangement found on the empennage of some aircraft. Two vertical stabilizers—often smaller on their own than...

of the airflow between the wings and tail surfaces of diving Lockheed P-38 Lightnings made "pulling out" of dives difficult; in one 1941 test flight test...

Allied reporting name "Val") is a World War II carrier-borne dive bomber. It was the primary dive bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and was involved...

wings, like velvet scoters, to dive, which gives them the ability to dive much deeper than other ducks. The long-tailed duck is still hunted across a large...

test the tail-mounted, clamshell-like dive brake and automatic pull-out equipment. The Dornier entered the dive automatically when the dive switch was...

A T-tail is an empennage configuration in which the tailplane of an aircraft is mounted to the top of the fin. The arrangement looks like the capital letter...

red-tailed hawk females rarely defend nests from humans but historically in California and quite often still in Alaska, some female will dive repeatedly...

abilities, such as ledge grabbing, wall kicking, horn diving into enemies while flying, and swinging his tail like a lasso, and a new Water breath attack. Moves...

eventually develop a tightening spiral-dive. If a spiral dive is entered unintentionally, the result can be fatal. A spiral dive is not a spin; it starts, not...