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. The design is often used to locate the horizontal stabilizer away from jet exhaust, propeller and wing wake, as well as to provide undisturbed airflow to the rudder.[1]
British Aerospace Jetstream 31 with cruciform tail
Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck showing its cruciform design tail
Applications
- Allstar SZD-59
- Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck
- British Aerospace Jetstream 31/32
- British Aerospace Jetstream 41
- Britten-Norman Trislander
- Canadair CL-215
- Cessna A-37 Dragonfly
- Cessna Citation - Excel, Sovereign and Latitude variants only
- Cessna T303 Crusader
- Cessna T-37 Tweet
- Consolidated PBY Catalina
- Dassault Falcon 10/100
- Dassault Falcon 20/200
- Dassault Falcon 50
- Dassault Falcon 5X
- Dassault Falcon 7X
- Dassault Falcon 8X
- Dassault Falcon 900
- Dassault Falcon 2000
- de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter
- Dornier Do 335
- Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
- Fairchild C-26 Metroliner
- Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
- GAF Nomad
- Gloster Meteor
- Handley Page Jetstream
- Hawker Hunter
- Ivanov ZJ-Viera
- Lake Buccaneer
- Lockheed JetStar
- McDonnell FH Phantom
- McDonnell F2H Banshee - early variants only[N 1]
- Messerschmitt 262
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
- Northrop YC-125 Raider
- Piccard Eureka
- PZL Bielsko SZD-50 Puchacz
- Republic F-84 Thunderjet
- Republic F-84F Thunderstreak/RF-84F Thunderflash
- Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech
- Roberts Cygnet
- Rockwell B-1 Lancer
- Rockwell Commander 112/114
- Scaled Composites White Knight Two
- Stratos 714
- Sud Aviation Caravelle
- Swearingen Merlin
- US Aviation Cumulus
- Westland Whirlwind
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
- What-when-how. "Tail designs". what-when-how.com. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
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