Tailplane
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- horizontal stabilizer
- plural
- Tailplanes
- possessive
- Tailplane's
- pluralpossessive
- Tailplanes'