"swingtail" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From swing + tail.",
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          "ref": "1961 October, Richard B. Weeghm, “Aviation Fuel”, in Flying Magazine, volume 69, number 4, page 107:",
          "text": "During the flight to California to deliver the first swingtail to Flying Tiger Lines, Coe cruised at 12,000 to 16,000 feet, indicating 278 knots for a true airspeed of 398 mph.",
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          "ref": "1965, JA Soulsby, “The Shannon free airport scheme: A new approach to industrial development”, in The Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 81, number 2:",
          "text": "As Wheatcroft has pointed out the development of new all-cargo freighters is essential for economic progress, so with the introduction of the swingtail Canadair CL 44 D4 freighter and another all-cargo service by Pan American Airways shipments by air should improve.",
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          "ref": "1999, I Lobo, M Zairi, “Competitive benchmarking in the air cargo industry: Part I”, in Benchmarking: An International Journal, volume 6, number 2:",
          "text": "Their first flight took the company's CL‐44 swingtail freighter to Hong Kong in September 1970.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, K Poechlauer, CA Vyeson, “The 747-400 Dreamlifter-Swing Tail Door Alignment and Latch Mechanism”, in SAE International Journal of Aerospace, volume 1, number 1:",
          "text": "Two other interesting configurations also considered were a removable tail and a vertical swingtail.",
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          "ref": "2013, Robin Higham, Speedbird: The Complete History of BOAC, →ISBN, page 221:",
          "text": "It then made a study which eventually convinced the Board that a temporary solution was to lease Canadair CL—44s, a swingtail version of the Britannia freighter which Sir Miles Thomas had tried to order in 1952.",
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        "A hinged tail section on an airplane that can open up, providing access to the interior of the fuselage."
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        ],
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          "fuselage",
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  "word": "swingtail"
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  "etymology_text": "From swing + tail.",
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          "ref": "1961 October, Richard B. Weeghm, “Aviation Fuel”, in Flying Magazine, volume 69, number 4, page 107:",
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        },
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          "ref": "1965, JA Soulsby, “The Shannon free airport scheme: A new approach to industrial development”, in The Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 81, number 2:",
          "text": "As Wheatcroft has pointed out the development of new all-cargo freighters is essential for economic progress, so with the introduction of the swingtail Canadair CL 44 D4 freighter and another all-cargo service by Pan American Airways shipments by air should improve.",
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          "ref": "1999, I Lobo, M Zairi, “Competitive benchmarking in the air cargo industry: Part I”, in Benchmarking: An International Journal, volume 6, number 2:",
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        },
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          "ref": "2008, K Poechlauer, CA Vyeson, “The 747-400 Dreamlifter-Swing Tail Door Alignment and Latch Mechanism”, in SAE International Journal of Aerospace, volume 1, number 1:",
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          "text": "It then made a study which eventually convinced the Board that a temporary solution was to lease Canadair CL—44s, a swingtail version of the Britannia freighter which Sir Miles Thomas had tried to order in 1952.",
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