horizontal stabilizer

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noun Aeronautics.

the horizontal surface, usually fixed, of an aircraft empennage, to which the elevator is hinged.

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Also called, especially British, tail plane.

Words nearby horizontal stabilizer

horizon distance, horizonless, horizontal, horizontal bar, horizontal mobility, horizontal stabilizer, horizontal tasting, horizontal union, Horkheimer, horlicks, Horlivka

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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.
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Elevators, flaps on the horizontal stabilizer that intersected the tail, were normally used to correct any unwanted up-and-down pitching motion.
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Like countless other boys in Massapequa, he had a crew cut and wore Keds sneakers and T-shirts with horizontal stripes.
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There was one very large and easily identifiable piece of debris floating, the vertical stabilizer.
MH370 Debris Is Lost Forever, Can the Plane Be Found Without It?|Clive Irving|September 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Daily activity is rendered in parallel horizontal timelines, making it very easy to compare one day's activity to the next.
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Name some aspect of the horizontal polka and it has probably been discussed endlessly among human beings with two X chromosomes.
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You see, the spine is a row of vertebrae that was designed to be horizontal.
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In the diagram the horizontal arrows represent such mere banking operations, not true circulation.
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It had worked at Tavistock; it was a horizontal high-pressure pole puffer.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
Carlson was a little above medium height, dark complexioned, his brow a washboard of horizontal wrinkles.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
The cliffs of Red Point partake of a reddish tinge and appear to be disposed nearly in horizontal strata.
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The tubes are horizontal over the fire, the water circulating through them.
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British Dictionary definitions for horizontal stabilizer

horizontal stabilizer

noun

the US name for tailplane

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