flaperon

American  

[flap-uh-ron] / ˈflæp əˌrɒn /

noun

Aeronautics.

1. a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.

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Etymology

Origin of flaperon

flap + (ail)eron

Example Sentences

By that time another large piece, known as a flaperon, from the wing, had already been found on Reunion Island, confirming to the families that MH370 had indeed crashed into the Indian Ocean.

From BBC

Until the flaperon was found, the only evidence for the plane turning back on itself was data from military radar in Malaysia and Thailand, which spotted the plane flying west over the Malay peninsula.

From BBC

In July 2015, a fragment later confirmed to be a flaperon from Flight 370 was found on France’s Reunion Island in the western Indian Ocean, the first hard evidence that MH370 ended its flight in the Indian Ocean.

From Seattle Times

The team was able to model only the final leg of the drift path based on the smallest barnacles that had colonized the flaperon.

From National Geographic

“The chemistry of barnacle shell layers is like a forensic recorder for drifting debris,” says marine ecologist Gregory Herbert at the University of South Florida, who began working on the MH 370 mystery in the summer of 2015 after seeing news accounts of a flaperon from the missing plane washed up on a Réunion beach, encrusted with barnacles.

From National Geographic