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Tailless aircraft still on the drawing board? (4)

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I believe the answer is:

plan

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'still on the drawing board?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'tailless aircraft' is the wordplay.
'tailless' means to remove the last letter (the tail of the word is removed).
'aircraft' becomes 'plane' (plane is a kind of aircraft).
'plane' with its last letter taken away is 'PLAN'.

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(Other definitions for plan that I've seen before include "Formulate" , "Large-scale map" , "Layout drawing" , "Arrangement" , "Road map" .)

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