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stabilator

[′stā·bə‚lād·ər]
(aerospace engineering)
A one-piece horizontal tail that is swept back and movable; movement is controlled by motion of the pilot's control stick; usually used in supersonic aircraft.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

stabilator

stabilator
Stabilator.
A single-piece, horizontal tailplane that combines the functions of a stabilizer and an elevator.
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Original capitalisation and sources: ALETORNIS (CD), ATELORNIS (CD), LAIRSTONE (Web3), LARSONITE (an inhabitant of Larson, N Dakota, coinage), LATNEIROS (plural, Dunkling: English House Names, The Name Society), LORENTIAS (plural of plant genus, DFPF), ORIENTALS (Borgmann), ORLEANIST (Borgmann), RELATIONS (Borgmann), ROTALINES (F&W NSD), SEROTINAL (Borgmann), TAILERONS (OED), TENSORIAL (Borgmann), TERNIOLAS (plural of plant genus, DFPF), TIROLEANS (Borgmann), TORNELIAS (plural of plant genus, DFPF), TRIOLENAS (plural of plant genus, DFPF).
TAILERON appeared as a dictionary entry in the Se-Z supplement of the Oxford English Dictionary published in 1986.
S 9 orientals relations serotinal tailerons L 10 -- H 11
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