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title: Why Don’t Birds Have Vertical Tails Like Airplanes? — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/why-dont-birds-have-vertical-tails-like-airplanes/
date: 2018-09-18
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# Why Don’t Birds Have Vertical Tails Like Airplanes?

How do you tell a plane from a bird? The vertical tail, of course! By why can birds fly without a vertical tail, and how do planes use their vertical tails to stay in the air?