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When Team Argentina arrived Sunday on a plane embellished on the tail fin with Messi’s No. 10 and its iconic blue and white stripes, Messi wasn’t among them when a KMBC 9 news helicopter followed the team bus to the Origin Hotel — now adorned by a massive image of Messi.
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Kansas City Star, 5 June 2026
Crosthwaite & Gardiner report that fitting the streamlined bodywork, cockpit canopy and tail fin over the wooden frame was particularly labor-intensive.
—New Atlas, 8 May 2026
Two images posted on Telegram by Israeli public broadcaster Kan, a CNN affiliate, showed a KC-135 aircraft with the top of its tail fin missing.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
As the plane twisted upward, the air pressure wrenched off another tail fin.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
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Kansas City Star, 5 June 2026
Crosthwaite & Gardiner report that fitting the streamlined bodywork, cockpit canopy and tail fin over the wooden frame was particularly labor-intensive.
—New Atlas, 8 May 2026
Two images posted on Telegram by Israeli public broadcaster Kan, a CNN affiliate, showed a KC-135 aircraft with the top of its tail fin missing.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
As the plane twisted upward, the air pressure wrenched off another tail fin.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
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“Tail fin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tail%20fin. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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