NOUN
- the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged
How To Use horizontal stabiliser In A Sentence
- IAI and Cyclone Aviation Products Ltd in Carmiel manufacture the ventral fins, rudders, horizontal stabilisers and engine access doors.
- Alphonse Penaud established the practice of setting the horizontal stabiliser at a negative angle of incidence relative to the wing chord, which provides longitudinal balance to an aircraft.
- For air transportation, the vertical tail fin pivots, the main rotor blades and the horizontal stabiliser are folded, and the mast-mounted sight, the IFF antenna and the lower wire cutter are removed.
