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...

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...

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...

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...

unseating the vertical stabilizer, and severing all four hydraulic lines. A photograph taken from the ground shows the vertical stabilizer missing. The...

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...

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...

of the JF-17 airframe, including its front fuselage, wings, and vertical stabilizer, is produced in Pakistan, whereas forty-two percent is produced in...

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...

clipped and swept vertical tails instead of the trapezoid tails. Other improvements included modifications to the vertical stabilizers, wings, and airframe...

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...

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...

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...

Includes: Vertical stabilizer of airplanes Tailplane or horizontal stabilizer Stabilizer (ship), fins on ships to counteract roll Stabilizer, another name...

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...

airfoil thickness to length) and 60° sweep, complete with a large vertical stabilizer and rudder. However, the tailless delta configuration imposed a number...

that axis. A horizontal stabilizer or tailplane, usually mounted at the tail near the vertical stabilizer. The horizontal stabilizer is used to stabilize...

besides its main wing. It may still have a fuselage, vertical tail fin (vertical stabilizer), and/or vertical rudder. Theoretical advantages of the tailless...

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...

striking the bomber's vertical stabilizers and left wing. The F-104 then exploded, destroying the Valkyrie's vertical stabilizers and damaging its left...

aircraft was written off as a total hull loss. Since the aircraft's vertical stabilizer interfered with the accuracy of the instrument landing system signals...

mounted on underwing pylons and a third engine at the base of the vertical stabilizer, which has a two-segment rudder for directional control. It is based...

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...

of the fuselage, with an image of a native Alaskan Eskimo on the vertical stabilizer as a logo. The image of the Eskimo first appeared in 1972 alongside...

STA-099, including the payload bay doors, body flap, wings, and vertical stabilizer, also had to be returned to their individual subcontractors for rework...

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...

problems were remedied sometime late in production by enlarging the vertical stabilizer and changing how the ammunition was stored. P-40's were more a powerful...

While removing the vertical stabilizer reduced drag, it caused yaw control problems. In traditional aircraft, a vertical stabilizer works passively to...

turbofans on underwing pylons and a third one at the base of the vertical stabilizer. The twin-aisle layout has a typical seating for 270 in two classes...

vertical stabilizers and their component rudders, each of a shape similar to a rounded right triangle. The leading edge of each vertical stabilizer was...