Kliban's Cats by B. Kliban for November 16, 2021

“Hair balls away…”

He needs to catch a tail wind.

Golly. I’ll bet his tail gets cold!!

What a tail!

Off chute of the Flying Tigers.

It’s always good to know you have the puuuurfect wind, at your back.

let’s give that empennage a big tug

Have you heard the tail of the cat?

That is a Tail Dragger.

Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail. The term taildragger is also used, although some argue it should apply only to those aircraft with a tailskid rather than a wheel.

The Flying Tiger… kitty series.

At the moment he’s just a taxicat.

Love it! I’m glad they’re sharing all these fun cartoons again, even if the cartoonist is gone.

Without a proper rudder it looks more like a cat-astrophe…..and it looks a little tail heavy to boot!

Flying a taildragger… :)

Novel rudder design. The stripes look great.

And he always lands right side-up!

Looks like he’s sittin’ in the catbird seat.

Wow, that is quite impressive.