NOUN
- the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged
How To Use horizontal stabilizer In A Sentence
- This follows the discovery earlier this week in two Alaska Airlines jets of metal strips and filings in the jackscrew assemblies, a part of the horizontal stabilizer. CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2000
- the horizontal stabilizer and elevator in the tail assembly of an aircraft.
- He smashed the tractor's "hooch" into the trailing edge of the horizontal stabilizer.
- For example, if the actuation screw for the horizontal stabilizer is deemed to be of poor or unsafe design in a particular aircraft, then the government can issue a bulletin to require a new approved design be retrofitted in all other aircraft of this series. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Revisiting Nuclear Power
- Two factors can lead to pitch instability: no or too small horizontal stabilizers (h - stabs) on too short a tail and high thrust line propeller placement which destabilises the force diagram.
- The tail unit was of the monoplane type and consisted of horizontal stabilizer, elevator, vertical fin and rudder.
- the horizontal stabilizer and elevator in the tail assembly of an aircraft.
- Both the vertical and horizontal stabilizers were fixed in position, trim being obtained by means of controllable tabs in the rudder and elevators.
- In order to test the aircraft, it would have to be flown into some fairly unpleasant weather and, in order to further increase stability, a large fixed fin was added on the center line of the horizontal stabilizer.
- The initial assembly of the horizontal stabilizer is going smoothly.
