horizontal stabilizer

noun

, Aeronautics.

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

horizontal stabilizer

noun

1. the US name for tailplane

Example Sentences

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.

From Washington Post

Elevators, flaps on the horizontal stabilizer that intersected the tail, were normally used to correct any unwanted up-and-down pitching motion.

From Popular-Science