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empennage(noun) The rear part of an aircraft. Synonyms: tailUsage: The pop superstar is so vain that she had her likeness plastered across her private jet's empennage.
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i dont understand the usage part.
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The tail. For historical reasons, some parts of an aircraft have retained French names - but empennage is not a common word in English, outside the aviation world. Quote:fuselage = long and narrow, tapering at both ends.
Etymology
Borrowed from French fuselage, from fuselé (“spindle-shaped”), from Old French *fus (“spindle”), from Latin fusus (“spindle”). So named for its shape; in English since 1909. Quote:empennage
The tail assembly of an aircraft.
The feathers of an arrow or the tail fins of a bomb or rocket used to stabilize the longitudinal axis of the projectile parallel to the flight path.
French empennage (“feathers of an arrow”) Like a pen, which used to be made from a feather. So an aeroplane is a spindle with fletching feathers at the back.    In the example sentence I think they mean the tail fin - the vertical stabiliser. Not the whole empennage. 
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The pronunciation of this word is not what I thought it was. Good to know.
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The tail assembly of an aircraft, including the horizontal and vertical stabilizers, elevators, and rudder.
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