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    A vertical stabilizer or tail fin is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft. The term is commonly applied to the assembly of both this fixed...
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    motion dampers or stabilizers. A horizontal stabilizer is used to maintain the aircraft in longitudinal balance, or trim: it exerts a vertical force at a distance...
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    force caused composite lugs that attached the vertical stabilizer to fail at 9:15:58.: xi, 135  The stabilizer separated from the aircraft and fell into Jamaica...
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    aircraft have no separate tailplane, while in V-tail aircraft the vertical stabilizer, rudder, and the tail-plane and elevator are combined to form two...
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    unseating the vertical stabilizer, and severing all four hydraulic lines. A photograph taken from the ground shows the vertical stabilizer missing. The...
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  • Indonesia's state insignia. Georgian Airways: Flag of Georgia on the vertical stabilizer and a Borjgali on the logo which is a Georgian symbol of the sun...
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    A twin tail is a type of vertical stabilizer arrangement found on the empennage of some aircraft. Two vertical stabilizers—often smaller on their own...
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    clipped and swept vertical tails instead of the trapezoid tails. Other improvements included modifications to the vertical stabilizers, wings, and airframe...
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    747 while the left horizontal stabilizer of the 747 sliced off the vertical stabilizer (including the horizontal stabilizer) of the Kazakh flight.[citation...
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    Trim tab (redirect from Stabilizer trim)
    adjusted by the pilot in the case of the elevator, an all-moving horizontal stabilizer, called a stabilator, the position of which can be adjusted in flight...
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    inner leading edges and 45 degrees at their outer leading edges. The vertical stabilizer of the orbiter had a leading edge that was swept back at a 45-degree...
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    angle-of-incidence to give better takeoff performance, and a larger vertical stabilizer and rudder). The Marauder ended World War II with the lowest loss...
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    that axis. A horizontal stabilizer or tailplane, usually mounted at the tail near the vertical stabilizer. The horizontal stabilizer is used to stabilize...
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    The following day, 7 June, search crews recovered the Airbus's vertical stabilizer, the first major piece of wreckage to be discovered. Pictures of...
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    of the JF-17 airframe, including its front fuselage, wings, and vertical stabilizer, is produced in Pakistan, whereas forty-two percent is produced in...
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    underwing-mounted engine pods, a horizontal stabilizer mounted on the fuselage near the bottom of the vertical stabilizer with positive dihedral on the two horizontal...
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  • Includes: Vertical stabilizer of airplanes Tailplane or horizontal stabilizer Stabilizer (ship), fins on ships to counteract roll Stabilizer, another name...
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  • Thumbnail for 1963 Elephant Mountain B-52 crash
    Boeing B-52C Stratofortress with nine crew members on board lost its vertical stabilizer due to buffeting stresses during turbulence at low altitude and crashed...
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    until 1983, and from 1986 onwards carried an imaging pod on its vertical stabilizer. During its 22 years of operation, Columbia was flown on 28 missions...
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    Longeron Nacelle Rib Spar Stabilizer Stressed skin Strut T-tail Tailplane Trailing edge Triple tail Twin tail V-tail Vertical stabilizer Wing root Wing tip Wingbox...
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  • stressed the composite vertical stabilizer until it separated from the aircraft. The complete loss of the vertical stabilizer meant the loss of all rudder...
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    airfoil thickness to length) and 60° sweep, complete with a large vertical stabilizer and rudder. However, the tailless delta configuration imposed a number...
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  • presence of a fixed vertical stabilizer complicates the maneuver. However, in those in which the whole of the vertical stabilizer comprises the rudder...
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    striking the bomber's vertical stabilizers and left wing. The F-104 then exploded, destroying the Valkyrie's vertical stabilizers and damaging its left...
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    besides its main wing. It may still have a fuselage, vertical tail fin (vertical stabilizer), and/or vertical rudder. Theoretical advantages of the tailless...
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    subsequently rushed out of the bulkhead and blew off the plane's vertical stabilizer, also severing all four of its hydraulic control systems. The pilots...
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    was a U.S. military nuclear accident in which a Cold War bomber's vertical stabilizer broke off in winter storm turbulence. The two nuclear bombs being...
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    AV-8B Harrier II, F/A-18 Hornet and Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit. The vertical stabilizer of the Airbus A310-300, first flown in 1985, was the first carbon-fiber...
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    The A400M has a T-tail empennage. Its vertical stabilizer is 8.02 m (26.3 ft) tall. The horizontal stabilizer spans 19.03 m (62.4 ft), with a sweep of...
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    respectively. Oman's national symbol, the Khanjar, is painted in red on the vertical stabilizer.[citation needed] In the late 1990s, the livery was revised, with...
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