Swept back empennage
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In some a/c, tail surfaces are given sweep to increase its moment arm. That allows having smaller and thus lighter tail surfaces while having nice stability and control authority. From the top of my head, you can see that in Yak-40 and Il-28, there are probably hundreds more.
Regards,
Andrés
Regards,
Andrés