The Airy stress function fot a long tensile fuuh of arbitrary dip and finite width buried in a homogeneous, isotropic, perfectly elastic half-space is obtained. This Airy stress function is used to derive closed-form analytical expressions for the displacements and stresses at an arbitrary point of the half-space caused by a long vertical tensile fuuh of finite width. The variation of the displacement and stress fields with distance from the fiwh and with depth is studied numerically. Contour maps showing the displacement and stress fields around a long vertical tensile fiwh in a half-space are also presented.