horizontal stabilizer
the horizontal surface, usually fixed, of an aircraft empennage, to which the elevator is hinged.
- Also called, especially British, tail plane.
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How to use horizontal stabilizer in a sentence
In the book, Schmidle wrote that the “seal had disbonded on the way up, as the pressure increased with nowhere to vent,” ultimately leaving a “wide gap running along the trailing edge of the right h-stab,” or horizontal stabilizer.
Virgin Galactic ordered safety probe after wing of spacecraft was damaged during 2019 flight, book says | Christian Davenport | February 1, 2021 | Washington PostElevators, flaps on the horizontal stabilizer that intersected the tail, were normally used to correct any unwanted up-and-down pitching motion.
Chuck Yeager has died at 97, but the legacy of his record-breaking flight lives on | Rob Verger | December 8, 2020 | Popular-Science
British Dictionary definitions for horizontal stabilizer
the US name for tailplane
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