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Uncommon card · Science
Empennage, an Uncommon card
The empennage, also known as the tail or tail assembly, is a structure at the rear of an aircraft that provides stability during flight, in a way similar to the feathers on an arrow.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 76,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Empennage quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Empennage card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The term derives from the ______ language verb empenner which means "to feather an arrow".
Answer
French. The term derives from the French language verb empenner which means "to feather an arrow". From the Empennage article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Riemann integral. Riemann integral 74 · Duke of Burgundy 70 · Jethro Tull 67 · Empennage 62 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The term derives from the French language verb empenner which means "to feather an arrow".
- Most aircraft feature an empennage incorporating vertical and horizontal stabilising surfaces which stabilise the flight dynamics of yaw and pitch, as well as housing control surfaces.
- Many early aircraft that lacked a stabilising empennage were virtually unflyable, despite having other effective control surfaces.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Empennage article was read about 76,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Empennage
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Empennage in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Trafalgar-class submarineUncommon · Science · ATK 66 DEF 59
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- Jeong Yun-hoUncommon · Arts · ATK 67 DEF 58
- Aircraft pilotUncommon · Society · ATK 68 DEF 57
- Herschelle GibbsUncommon · Society · ATK 69 DEF 56
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Empennage (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Dtom, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
