Barry Hempel Inquest

[Fantome]

whether I'd stuffed up or that bloody LAME had left his pesky screwdriver inside the tail empennage!!

While I concur 100% with all you say M. SARC-COSY, and while your French is not at fault, something else is a tad taut. Granny used to say "reversing back" and " a final tail-piece". (Then of course there's always that thin fine line between charisma and bull**** to put you off your stroke.)


em·pen·nage

NOUN:

The tail assembly of an aircraft, including the horizontal and vertical stabilizers, elevators, and rudder.

ETYMOLOGY:
French, feathers on an arrow, empennage, from empenner, to feather an arrow : en-, in ; see en-1 + penne, feather (from Latin penna; see pet- in Indo-European roots)