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horizontal stabilizer

noun

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


horizontal stabilizer

noun

  1. the US name for tailplane
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

Elevators, flaps on the horizontal stabilizer that intersected the tail, were normally used to correct any unwanted up-and-down pitching motion.

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