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  • Norwegian snowboarding giant Terje Haakonsen has helped Burton design the Cheetah, which looks like a surfboard with a pointed tip and V-tail.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com AP 2012

  • Distinguished by its bulbous, whale-shaped nose, top-mounted engine and V-tail, the Global Hawk is 44 feet (13.4 meters) long and its wings span 116 feet (35.3 meters) - almost the wingspan of the latest Boeing 737s.

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

  • Distinguished by its bulbous, whale-shaped nose, top-mounted engine and V-tail, the Global Hawk is 44 feet (13.4 metres) long and its wings span 116 feet (35.3 metres) - almost the wingspan of the latest Boeing 737s.

    Ottawa Sun 2010

  • Distinguished by its bulbous, whale-shaped nose, top-mounted engine and V-tail, the Global Hawk is 44 feet long and its wings span 116 feet - almost the wingspan of the latest Boeing

    News Agencies 2010

  • (V-tail assembly and other composite structures); L-3 Communications,

    News 2010

  • Distinguished by its bulbous, whale-shaped nose, top-mounted engine and V-tail, the Global Hawk is 44 feet (13.4 meters) long and its wings span 116 feet (35.3 meters) - almost the wingspan of the latest Boeing 737s.

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

  • Distinguished by its bulbous, whale-shaped nose, top-mounted engine and V-tail, the Global Hawk is 13.4 metres long and its wings span 35.3 metres - almost the wingspan of the latest Boeing 737s.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • Aerodynamic testing and other studies, she said, led to the vehicle's upper center line speed brake and V-tail ruddervators as the best performing system solutions for the X-37B.

    FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010

  • Distinguished by its bulbous, whale-shaped nose, top-mounted engine and V-tail, the Global Hawk is 13.4 metres long and its wings span 35.3 metres - almost the wingspan of the latest Boeing 737s.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • There were several reasons for the V-tail 'ruddervators' ... a high-tech wordsmithing of rudder and elevator, explained Angie Blair, an Air Force spokeswoman for the project.

    FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010

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