Cruciform tail
BAe Jetstream 31 with cruciform tail
The cruciform tail is an aircraft empennage configuration which, when viewed from the aircraft's front or rear, looks much like a cross. The usual arrangement is to have the horizontal stabilizer intersect the vertical tail somewhere near the middle, and above the top of the fuselage.[1]
Applications
Avro Canada CF-100 showing its cruciform design tail.
- A-4 Skyhawk
- Avro Canada CF-100
- B-1 Lancer
- British Aerospace Jetstream 41
- Britten-Norman Trislander
- Canadair CL-215
- Cessna T303 Crusader
- Cessna T-37 Tweet
- Dassault Falcon
- de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter
- Dornier Do 335
- F-84 Thunderjet
- F-84F Thunderstreak
- Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
- Gloster Meteor - Allies first operational jet fighter.
- Hawker Hunter
- Jetstream 31
- Lake Buccaneer
- Lockheed Jetstar
- Lockheed XFV Salmon tail-sitter fighter (X-form tail)
- McDonnell FH Phantom
- McDonnell F2H Banshee - early variants only[N 1]
- Messerschmitt 262 - the first operational jet fighter.
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
- Northrop YC-125 Raider
- PBY Catalina
- Piccard Eureka
- Roberts Cygnet
- Rockwell Commander 112
- Scaled Composites White Knight Two
- Stratos 714
- Sud Aviation Caravelle
- SZD-50 Puchacz
- US Aviation Cumulus
See also
References
- Notes
- ↑ A cruciform tail was used on the XF2D-1, F2H-1, F2H-2, F2H-2B, F2H-2N, and F2H-2P Banshee variants. The later F2H-3 and F2H-4 used a conventional tail.
- References
- ↑ dic.academic.ru (n.d.). "Cruciform". Retrieved 2009-02-19.
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