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noun Aeronautics (chiefly British ).
  1. horizontal stabilizer.
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Origin of tail plane

First recorded in 1905–10
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British Dictionary definitions for tailplane

tailplane

noun
  1. a small horizontal wing at the tail of an aircraft to provide longitudinal stabilityAlso called (esp US): horizontal stabilizer
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