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horizontal stabilizer
noun
, Aeronautics.
- the horizontal surface, usually fixed, of an aircraft empennage, to which the elevator is hinged.
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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
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