tail plane

noun

Aeronautics (chiefly British).

1. horizontal stabilizer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tail plane¹

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.

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

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

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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.

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Within four feet of the tail plane Ralph halted.

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