NOUN
- control from ground stations of airplanes in flight by means of messages transmitted to the pilot electronically
How To Use flight control In A Sentence
- There was nothing that flight controllers could have done to bring home the shuttle safely.
- The flight controls had been carefully rigged to fractions of a degree while the wing slats were removed and then refitted to ensure a perfectly smooth fit.
- Airborne ash can diminish visibility, damage flight control systems and may cause engine failure.
- Finally, a numerical example is given for a fly-by-wire flight control system on four-redundancy. The variation of reliability with second fault coverage is determined.
- There are usually warm-up times for instruments, flight controls, hydraulics, accessory cases, etc.
- A tiny feathered "thumb," the alula, improves flight control. The protruding shaft on the first wing feather makes a loud, rustling sound—adding acoustics to the visual display.
- I glided down the runway set up for a great greaser landing! But there is something odd about flight controls in small aircraft.
- He took over the flight controls and banked the airplane to the right.
- We use shades of gray to outline maps and to outline the aircraft planform shown on various subsystem formats, such as fuel, flight controls, and weapons.
- The fly-by-wire system consists of a flight control computer, two pilot control sticks and sensors for pitch, roll and yaw measurement.
