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tail plane

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tail plane

–noun Aeronautics (chiefly British).
horizontal stabilizer.

Origin:
1905–10

horizontal stabilizer

–noun Aeronautics.
the horizontal surface, usually fixed, of an aircraft empennage, to which the elevator is hinged.
Also called, especially British, tail plane.
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