tail-first

I remember it feeling a lot like knowing a bloated pigeon is hovering tail-first on a ledge just above your patio brunch table.

With Love and Laughter, John Ritter Amy Yasbeck 2010

Starting tail-first allows your dog to get used to the water and the sensation of being washed.

30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog Tamar Geller 2010

Evidently not, for it backed out, turned around and eased itself tail-first into the tunnel, until the entrance hole was blocked with its metallic green head and angry eyes.

Country diary: Durham coast Phil Gates 2010

Starting tail-first allows your dog to get used to the water and the sensation of being washed.

30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog Tamar Geller 2010

Starting tail-first allows your dog to get used to the water and the sensation of being washed.

30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog Tamar Geller 2010

The official estimate of the risk from space debris has been lowered to 1-in-221, but the shuttle will still fly tail-first to better shield the spacewalking astronauts, led by astronaut/astronomer John Grunsfeld.

Waiting for two launches The AstroDyke 2009

That 747 stalled, then augured-in tail-first in a 264-person fireball.

John T. Halliday: Software Snakes On A Plane: An Interactive Thriller -- Part One 2009

The official estimate of the risk from space debris has been lowered to 1-in-221, but the shuttle will still fly tail-first to better shield the spacewalking astronauts, led by astronaut/astronomer John Grunsfeld.

Archive 2009-04-01 The AstroDyke 2009

Baby whales and dolphins ordinarily emerge tail-first, and are thus only ‘triggered’ to take their first breath when the head emerges.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

The investigators also determined that before the barely airborne McDonnell Douglas MD-82 slammed tail-first into the ground and burst into a fireball, it suffered a failure of an audible alarm system designed to warn pilots of improper takeoff configuration.

Flaps, Alarm Failure Cited 2008