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tail cone

Noun

Meaning

tail cone (plural tail cones)

(aeronautics) A cone-shaped piece on the tail of a jet or aeroplane where exhaust escapes.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Darling 1999, p. 19. A brake parachute was installed inside the tail cone. Source: Internet

Wynn 1997, p. 321. The bulk of the equipment was carried in a large extended tail cone, and a flat ECM aerial counterpoise plate mounted between the starboard tailpipes. Source: Internet

Powered by production Olympus 201 with convert thrust, it was more representative of a production aircraft, being fitted with an in-flight refuelling probe and a bulged ECM tail cone. Source: Internet

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