A vertical stabilizer or tail fin is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft. The term is commonly applied to the assembly of both this fixed...

force caused composite lugs that attached the vertical stabilizer to fail at 9:15:58.: xi, 135  The stabilizer separated from the aircraft and fell into Jamaica...

motion dampers or stabilizers. A horizontal stabilizer is used to maintain the aircraft in longitudinal balance, or trim: it exerts a vertical force at a distance...

pattern of kilt (the national garment of Scotland) featured in the vertical stabilizer. Luxair: The Luxembourg flag and the logo of the airline are on display...

aircraft have no separate tailplane, while in V-tail aircraft the vertical stabilizer, rudder, and the tail-plane and elevator are combined to form two...

until 1983, and from 1986 onwards carried an imaging pod on its vertical stabilizer. During its 22 years of operation, Columbia was flown on 28 missions...

A twin tail is a type of vertical stabilizer arrangement found on the empennage of some aircraft. Two vertical stabilizers—often smaller on their own...

Includes: Vertical stabilizer of airplanes Tailplane or horizontal stabilizer Stabilizer (ship), fins on ships to counteract roll Stabilizer, another name...

presence of a fixed vertical stabilizer complicates the maneuver. However, in those in which the whole of the vertical stabilizer comprises the rudder...

angle-of-incidence to give better takeoff performance, and a larger vertical stabilizer and rudder). The Marauder ended World War II with the lowest loss...

that axis. A horizontal stabilizer or tailplane, usually mounted at the tail near the vertical stabilizer. The horizontal stabilizer is used to stabilize...

orbiter's vertical stabilizer was swept backwards at 45° and contained a rudder that could split to act as a speed brake.: 382–389  The vertical stabilizer also...

unseating the vertical stabilizer, and severing all four hydraulic lines. A photograph taken from the ground shows the vertical stabilizer missing. The...

Boeing B-52C Stratofortress with nine crew members on board lost its vertical stabilizer due to buffeting stresses during turbulence at low altitude and crashed...

central slot at the north entry allowed for passage of the orbiter's vertical stabilizer. To lift the components of the Space Shuttle, the VAB housed five...

and collapse around the orbiter. Minor damage was spotted on the vertical stabilizer of the orbiter, as a portion of the tail fin above the rudder/speedbrake...

besides its main wing. It may still have a fuselage, vertical tail fin (vertical stabilizer), and/or vertical rudder. Theoretical advantages of the tailless...

While removing the vertical stabilizer reduced drag, it caused yaw control problems. In traditional aircraft, a vertical stabilizer works passively to...

unchanged, and the displayed number, normally shown on the fixed vertical stabilizer's sides, usually omitted the first digit of the year of the contract...

adjusted by the pilot in the case of the elevator, an all-moving horizontal stabilizer, called a stabilator, the position of which can be adjusted in flight...

Studies showed a single vertical stabilizer was insufficient at high angles of attack, and it was changed to twin vertical stabilizers, canted at 45°, resulting...

of the JF-17 airframe, including its front fuselage, wings, and vertical stabilizer, is produced in Pakistan, whereas forty-two percent is produced in...

giving it limited yaw control authority. Originally an all-moving vertical stabilizer was to be used but was abandoned because of doubts about hydraulic...

inner leading edges and 45 degrees at their outer leading edges. The vertical stabilizer of the orbiter had a leading edge that was swept back at a 45-degree...

airfoil thickness to length) and 60° sweep, complete with a large vertical stabilizer and rudder. However, the tailless delta configuration imposed a number...

of balsa wood (rather than the original sycamore), and then add a vertical stabilizer (not present in the original) to the tail, you get a so-so version...

up. The rudder is typically mounted on the trailing edge of the vertical stabilizer, part of the empennage. When the pilot pushes the left pedal, the...

was a U.S. military nuclear accident in which a Cold War bomber's vertical stabilizer broke off in winter storm turbulence. The two nuclear bombs being...

T-tail increases the effectiveness of the vertical tail because of "end plate" effect. The horizontal stabilizer acts like a winglet, reducing induced drag...

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