tail plane

American  

noun

Aeronautics (chiefly British).

1. horizontal stabilizer.

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Etymology

Origin of tail plane

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Civilian parachutes meant that he might free-fall away from the flight path before pulling the rip cord, and this signaled: A tail plane will be useless.

From Los Angeles Times

"I was a bit unlucky because my parachute when it opened was attached to the tail plane," Stirling said decades later.

From BBC

Questions were raised in parliament about one of the designs, which featured a Nazi swastika on the tail plane of a German bomber.

From BBC

The FAA's concerns center on the lack of an anti-corrosive coating on pins used to attach the 737s' horizontal stabiliser – also known as the tail plane.

From The Guardian

Within four feet of the tail plane Ralph halted.

From Project Gutenberg