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  2. Variable-position horizontal stabilizer - Wikipedia

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    5 position trim system. A variable-position horizontal stabilizer changes the pitch simultaneously with the flaperon setting. Normally the horizontal stabilizer also known as tailplane is fixed and has a hinged elevator, a stabilator is another method that combines the functions of an elevator and a horizontal stabilizer.

  3. Stabilizer (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    A Boeing 737 uses an adjustable stabilizer, moved by a jackscrew, to provide the required pitch trim forces. Generic stabilizer illustrated. A horizontal stabilizer is used to maintain the aircraft in longitudinal balance, or trim: [3] it exerts a vertical force at a distance so the summation of pitch moments about the center of gravity is zero. [4]

  4. Alisport Silent 2 Targa - Wikipedia

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    The sailplane is trimmed in pitch via an innovative variable-position horizontal stabilizer. The stabilizer position is governed by the flaperon setting. The five settings of the flaperons control produce corresponding changes to the stabilizer incidence, thus defining the trim airspeed in relation to the flaperons requirements.

  5. Tailplane - Wikipedia

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    The horizontal stabilizer is the fixed horizontal surface of the empennage. A tailplane, also known as a horizontal stabilizer, is a small lifting surface located on the tail behind the main lifting surfaces of a fixed-wing aircraft as well as other non-fixed-wing aircraft such as helicopters and gyroplanes. Not all fixed-wing aircraft have ...

  6. Canard (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    A canard foreplane may be used as a horizontal stabilizer, whether stability is achieved statically [26] [27] [28] or artificially (fly-by-wire). [29] Being placed ahead of the centre of gravity, a canard foreplane acts directly to reduce longitudinal static stability (stability in pitch).

  7. Wing configuration - Wikipedia

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    It comprises outboard horizontal stabilisers (OHS) and may or may not include additional boom-mounted vertical stabilisers (fins). In this position, the tail surfaces interact constructively with the wingtip vortices to significantly reduce drag. Used for the Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne. Tailless: no separate surface, at front or rear.

  8. Category:Aircraft controls - Wikipedia

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    Variable-position horizontal stabilizer; Vernier throttle; W. Weight-shift control; Y. Yaw damper; Yoke (aeronautics) This page was last edited on 29 November 2023 ...

  9. Chord (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    The wing, horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer and propeller/rotor blades of an aircraft are all based on aerofoil sections, and the term chord or chord length is also used to describe their width. The chord of a wing, stabilizer and propeller is determined by measuring the distance between leading and trailing edges in the direction of ...