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  2. Vertical stabilizer - Wikipedia

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    The vertical stabilizer is the fixed vertical surface of the empennage. A vertical stabilizer or tail fin [1] [2] is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft. [1] The term is commonly applied to the assembly of both this fixed surface and one or more movable rudders hinged to it. Their role is to provide control, stability and trim ...

  3. American Airlines Flight 587 - Wikipedia

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    The vertical stabilizer is connected to the fuselage with six attaching points. Each point has two sets of attachment lugs, one made of composite material , another of aluminum , all connected by a titanium bolt; damage analysis showed that the bolts and aluminum lugs were intact, but not the composite lugs.

  4. Lockheed Martin X-55 - Wikipedia

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    The new fuselage section is constructed as a single large component, including the vertical stabilizer. When attached to the existing nose section, the fuselage is 55 feet (16.8 m) long and 9 feet (2.74 m) diameter. The fuselage has upper and lower halves, each with a roughly-oval shape similar to a canoe. The halves are bonded to circular frames.

  5. Empennage - Wikipedia

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    The vertical tail structure has a fixed front section called the vertical stabiliser, used to control yaw, which is movement of the fuselage right to left motion of the nose of the aircraft. The rear section of the vertical fin is the rudder , a movable aerofoil that is used to turn the aircraft's nose right or left.

  6. Stabilizer (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    A Boeing 737 uses an adjustable stabilizer, moved by a jackscrew, to provide the required pitch trim forces. Generic stabilizer illustrated. A horizontal stabilizer is used to maintain the aircraft in longitudinal balance, or trim: [3] it exerts a vertical force at a distance so the summation of pitch moments about the center of gravity is zero. [4]

  7. Tailless aircraft - Wikipedia

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    The DH108 Swallow. In aeronautics, a tailless aircraft is a fixed-wing aircraft with no other horizontal aerodynamic surface besides its main wing. [1] It may still have a fuselage, vertical tail fin (vertical stabilizer), and/or vertical rudder.

  8. USAAF unit identification aircraft markings - Wikipedia

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    USAAF unit identification aircraft markings, commonly called "tail markings" after their most frequent location, were numbers, letters, geometric symbols, and colors painted onto the tails (vertical stabilizer fins, rudders and horizontal surfaces), wings, or fuselages of the aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during the ...

  9. List of aircraft structural failures - Wikipedia

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    Horizontal and vertical stabilizers detached in severe turbulence 1967-03-05 Lake Central Flight 527: USA: Ohio: Convair CV-580: Propeller manufacturing defect 38 Propeller broke apart; one of the blades punctured the fuselage, causing the forward section to break away 1967-06-23 Mohawk Airlines Flight 40: USA: Pennsylvania: BAC One-Eleven 204AF