A tailplane, also known as a horizontal stabilizer, is a small lifting surface located on the tail (empennage) behind the main lifting surfaces of a fixed-wing...

portmanteau of stabilizer and elevator. It is also known as an all-moving tailplane, all-movable tail(plane), all-moving stabilizer, all-flying tail(plane)...

empennage consists of the entire tail assembly, including the tailfin, the tailplane and the part of the fuselage to which these are attached. On an airliner...

A T-tail is an empennage configuration in which the tailplane of an aircraft is mounted to the top of the fin. The arrangement looks like the capital...

attack and the lift of the wing. The elevators are usually hinged to the tailplane or horizontal stabilizer. They may be the only pitch control surface present...

having a foreplane in front of the main wing instead of a conventional tailplane. Airwar.ru. Avia France. van Tilborg. "Chudzik CC-1". 1000 aircraft photos...

surface trim tabs, an autopilot and de-icing boots for the wings and tailplane. The 247 first flew on February 8, 1933, and entered service later that...

fixed-wing aircraft equipped with three vertically stacked wing planes. Tailplanes and canard foreplanes are not normally included in this count, although...

conventional aircraft configuration, separate vertical (fin) and horizontal (tailplane) stabilizers form an empennage positioned at the tail of the aircraft...

three-lifting-surface aircraft has a foreplane, a central wing and a tailplane. The central wing surface always provides lift and is usually the largest...

pilots training. It has a retractable tricycle landing gear and a low tailplane. The first customer was the Indonesian Air Force. EASA Part 23 type certification...

pressure of the wing, and a decrease in wing downwash velocity at the tailplane, both of which cause a nose down pitching moment.[citation needed] For...

military and civil pilots training. It has a tricycle landing gear and a low tailplane. The airframe is made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic and is stressed...

aircraft. Dihedral angle is the upward angle from horizontal of the wings or tailplane of a fixed-wing aircraft. "Anhedral angle" is the name given to negative...

to test the feasibility of full yaw, pitch and roll authority without tailplanes (horizontal or vertical). Attitude control relies purely on 3D thrust...

being covered in 22 gauge plating. The skin of the fuselage, wings, and tailplane was secured by dome-headed rivets, and in critical areas such as the wing...

fuselage, increased wingspan winglets, refined airfoils on the wing and tailplane resulting in a reduced wetted area and form drag, new engines, and increased...

Mechanical removal of snow from a Learjet 35. The weight of snow on the tailplane has raised the nose into the air....

would be distinctive of the Javelin, including the large delta wing and tailplane, and were based on the Rolls-Royce AJ65 engine (better known as Avon)...

flows above Mach 1. Sharp edges, thin aerofoil-sections, and all-moving tailplane/canards are common. Modern combat aircraft must compromise in order to...

A party of riggers working on the tailplane of a Supermarine Spitfire during World War II...

way down the side of the craft (roughly halfway between the cockpit and tailplane). When the plane was sitting on its tail in the vertical position, the...

flight-test programme ended on 19 December 2002 when the aircraft's port Tailplane broke off during a high-g manoeuvre, leading to it crashing at Shatura...

design initially featured a conventional tailplane and elevator which was later replaced by an all-moving tailplane in the -Pe and Ka 6E variants. Variants...

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The upward tilt of the wings and tailplane of an aircraft, as seen on this Boeing 737, is called dihedral angle...

tailless, because it has a small, all-moving tailplane on top of the vertical stabilizer. The tailplane is mainly a trimmer, rather than for longitudinal...

three-surface configuration, having both a small forward wing and a conventional tailplane, as well as its main wing, with the main wing spars passing behind the...

introducing a carbon fibre fuselage and integrated fin. The wings and tailplane are all-metal. It can be adapted to LSA, ultralight or ELA1 categories...

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