Empennage尾翼
Empennage is the complete tail assembly of an aircraft, typically including the horizontal stabilizer, elevator, vertical stabilizer, and rudder; it provides stability and control in pitch and yaw. In aerospace documentation, it appears in airframe descriptions, maintenance manuals, structural repair documents, and illustrated parts catalogs where the tail structure and its control surfaces are identified, often with reference to fuselage stations or frame numbers.
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Where this term appears
Empennage appears in airframe description documents, structural repair manuals, illustrated parts catalogs, and maintenance training charts. Translators should not reduce it to a generic 'tail,' because the term denotes an engineering assembly; they also need to keep subcomponent names such as stabilizer, elevator, and rudder consistent with callouts and part numbers.
Translation checks
A frequent mistake is translating empennage as a vague 'tail section' or 'rear body,' which can be confused with the aft fuselage in structural repair instructions. Another is inconsistent naming of the stabilizer, elevator, and rudder, making it hard to match parts catalog entries with repair steps and illustrated callouts.
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