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Technical drawing of a tailless aircraft (4)

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I believe the answer is:

plan

'technical drawing' is the definition.
(I know that plan is a type of technical drawing)

'a tailless aircraft' is the wordplay.
'a 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 off is 'PLAN'.

'of' is the link.

(Other definitions for plan that I've seen before include "Contrive" , "Project" , "'Scheme, strategy (4)'" , "Agenda" , "Off the right direction" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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