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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

constructed from several laminations of paper glued together. The wings are of two laminations, and the tailplane and tailfin of a single lamination....

scaled-down equivalent of the Victor's crescent wing and T-tail with slab tailplane. However where the Victor had a mid wing, the Type 521 set the wing low...

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

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...

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...

to: Anhedral angle, the downward angle from horizontal of the wings or tailplane of a fixed-wing aircraft Anhedral (petrology), a rock texture without...

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...

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

angle of 50 degrees to move the tailplane rearwards to compensate for the short rear fuselage. The horizontal tailplane itself is unswept. The Yak-40 was...

which controls its rotation along that axis. A horizontal stabilizer or tailplane, usually mounted at the tail near the vertical stabilizer. The horizontal...

buffeting of the tailplane, causing the port tailplane to fail, and the aircraft entered a dive. The flutter effect on the starboard tailplane caused it to...

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