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HORIZONTAL TAIL [16 records]

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Record 1 2016-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Airframe
DEF

An aerodynamic surface fixed, movable or adjustable in flight, located aft of the main plane, contributing to longitudinal control and/or stability and which may add to, or subtract from, the total lift.

CONT

The horizontal tail is made up of a fixed and a movable surface. The "horizontal stabilizer" is the fixed surface and the "elevator" is the horizontal moving surface.

OBS

horizontal tail : term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cellule d'aéronefs
CONT

L’empennage horizontal assure la stabilité et la manœuvre de l’avion autour de l’axe de tangage.

OBS

empennage horizontal : terme uniformisé par l'Organisation de l'aviation civile internationale (OACI) et uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) – Opérations aériennes.

OBS

empennage horizontal : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Célula de aeronaves
OBS

empenaje horizontal: término aceptado oficialmente por la Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional (OACI).

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Record 2 2015-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Controls (Aeroindustry)
  • Aircraft Maneuvers
DEF

A movable horizontal airfoil, usually attached to the horizontal stabilizer on the tail, that is used to control pitch[;] it usually changes the attitude of the nose, making it move up and down.

OBS

control surface: Any external moveable part of an aircraft designed to help it change orientation or speed, not including the propeller. The most commonly used control surfaces are ailerons, elevator, rudder, flaps, and spoilers.

OBS

elevator: term standardized by ISO and NATO.

PHR

Up-elevator, horizontal elevator.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commandes de vol (Constructions aéronautiques)
  • Manœuvres d'aéronefs
DEF

Volet mobile situé sur le bord de fuite du plan horizontal de l'empennage.

CONT

gouverne : Chacun des organes utilisés pour obtenir la rotation d'un aéronef autour de ses trois axes : tangage (gouverne de profondeur), roulis (gouverne latérale), lacet (gouverne de direction) et constitués, généralement, par des plans mobiles actionnés par le pilote au moyen du palonnier (lacet) et du manche à balai (tangage et roulis).

OBS

gouverne de profondeur : terme normalisé par l'ISO et l'OTAN.

OBS

gouverne de profondeur; profondeur : termes uniformisés par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Opérations aériennes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mandos de vuelo (Industria aeronáutica)
  • Maniobras de las aeronaves
DEF

Superficie aerodinámica móvil situada en posición horizontal y en el empenaje de cola que permite realizar el control de profundidad.

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Record 3 2012-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
  • Navigation Instruments
  • Launching and Space Maneuvering
CONT

Embedded GPS INS. The EGI is in an all-attitude navigation system providing outputs of linear and angular acceleration, velocity, position, attitude (roll, pitch, and platform azimuth), magnetic and true heading, altitude, time tags, and time. When installed in the host platforms in the appropriate configuration, the system provides the navigation functions of the equipment it replaces. It uses vehicle electrical power (28 Vdc), turn-on and mode commands, initialization data, and altitude data, as well as Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite inputs for GPS or GPS/Inertial Navigation System (INS) operation, and is able to track five space vehicles simultaneously.

OBS

Attitude. The angle between an imaginary line running from the nose to the tail, and the horizontal. The attitude is judged by the level at which the horizon is seen through the canopy.

Key term(s)
  • all attitude navigation system
  • all attitude reference system
  • all-attitude flight reference system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
  • Instruments de navigation
  • Lancement et manœuvres dans l'espace
CONT

GPS et INS intégrés. Le système EGI est un système de navigation toutes attitudes qui fournit un signal d'accélération linéaire et angulaire, de vitesse, de position, d'attitude (roulis, tangage et azimut de plate-forme), un cap magnétique et vrai, l'altitude, les descripteurs temps et l'heure. Lorsqu'il est installé dans les plates-formes hôtes sous sa configuration appropriée, le système fournit les fonctions de navigation de l'équipement qu'il remplace. Il utilise le courant électrique de l'aéronef (28 V CC), les commandements de mise en marche et de mode, les données d'initialisation ainsi que les données d'altitude de même que les entrées satellites du système de positionnement global (GPS) pour le fonctionnement en GPS ou en GPS/système de navigation par inertie (INS) et peut poursuivre cinq véhicules spatiaux simultanément.

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Controls (Aeroindustry)
DEF

An aeroplane with horizontal tail on top of fin; T-tail.

CONT

Our hangars are capable of accommodating high-tail aircraft such as BBJs, 727s, A319 and A320s.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commandes de vol (Constructions aéronautiques)

Spanish

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Record 5 2007-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Aircraft
CONT

Flying-wing aircraft are described as having critical stability problems.

OBS

The tailless aircraft [is] normally applied to aeroplanes and gliders only and usually meaning that there is no separate horizontal stabilizing or control surface, though there may be a vertical tail. In the case of the flying-wing aircraft, there is no tail surface.

OBS

flying wing aeroplane: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types d'aéronefs
OBS

aile volante; avion non empenné : termes normalisés par l'ISO.

PHR

Aile volante sans dérive.

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Aircraft
DEF

Normally applied to aeroplanes and gliders only and usually meaning that there is no separate horizontal stabilizing or control surface, though there may be a vertical tail.

OBS

[This type of aircraft consists] of a single wing without conventional fuselage or tail, housing cargo and personnel within the wing structure, and achieving stability and control by means of vertical external surfaces mounted on the wing tips or booms attached to the wing.

OBS

tailless aeroplane: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types d'aéronefs
CONT

En fonction de la forme, on distingue, en sus de l'avion classique, l'avion-canard et l'avion sans queue, qui ne comporte aucun empennage horizontal [...]

OBS

Se dit uniquement des avions et des planeurs sans stabilisateur horizontal ni gouverne, mais pouvant comporter un empennage vertical.

Spanish

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Record 7 2004-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Airframe
DEF

A tail assembly with surfaces at a pronounced dihedral forming a V, each side serving both as horizontal and vertical surfaces.

OBS

V-tail unit; butterfly-type tail unit: terms standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cellule d'aéronefs
DEF

Empennage ne comportant que deux surfaces dotées d'un fort dièdre et d'aucune surface verticale.

CONT

Une action concomitante des volets portés par un empennage papillon assure la commande en profondeur de l'aéronef, tandis que leur braquage différentiel en assure la direction.

OBS

empennage papillon : terme normalisé par l'Organisation internationale de normalisation (ISO).

PHR

Empennage en V inversé.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Célula de aeronaves
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Record 8 2003-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Waves
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
DEF

A fan-shaped radar beam, wide in the horizontal plane and narrow in the vertical plane. The beaver tail is swept up and down for height finding.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ondes radioélectriques
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
OBS

Il importe de noter que l'AFNOR a normalisé les termes connexes : «antenne à faisceau plat horizontal» et «antenne à faisceau en queue de castor».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ondas radioeléctricas
  • Guía radárica, radioguía y radiogoniometría
DEF

Haz cuyo ancho en el plano horizontal es significativamente más grande que en el plano vertical.

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Record 9 2001-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
  • Navigation Instruments
CONT

The HSI, or Horizontal Navigation Indicator or Pictorial Navigation Indicator, is perhaps one of the most useful although misunderstood instruments around... it combines your directional gyro and Nav indicator into one instrument that reduces pilot workload by providing heading, course reference, course deviation and glide slope information all in one visual aid... You may also consider a slaved HSI. Slaving automatically compensates for gyro heading errors and keeps your HSI in agreement with your compass. It uses a magnetic flux sensor mounted in the wing or tail of your aircraft to sense changes in magnetic heading and sends corrective signals to your HSI.

CONT

Directional Compass... The compass displays the directional heading of the Gizmo in degrees, shown in both analog and digital format. The dial is accurate within 23 degree increments; the digital readout is accurate to smaller values.

CONT

Heading Hold (HH) or Heading Lock. A feature mode of some gyros that stands out by its property to hold the heading of a helicopter and resist the tendency to weathervane. Once trimmed, the tail needs very little input to hold a directional heading, even in high cross-wind conditions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
  • Instruments de navigation
CONT

La centrale d'attitude et de cap peut être à cardans ou à composants liés [...] et utiliser des gyroscopes mécaniques ou des gyrolasers. Dans le cas d'une centrale à cardans par exemple : un gyroscope à deux axes sensibles maintient la direction de la verticale vraie et matérialise ainsi la position de la ligne d'horizon par rapport aux axes de roulis et de tangage de l'avion, c'est-à-dire ses assiettes; un gyroscope à un axe sensible est utilisé pour maintenir un cap directionnel ou gyromagnétique.

Spanish

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Record 10 1991-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Airframe
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
OBS

horizontal dorsal extension from the tail plane root

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cellule d'aéronefs
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
OBS

les deux termes sont utilisables, le premier décrivant ce qu'est le "horsal"; c'est une technique de construction des aéronefs de transport lourd qui permet d'améliorer la stabilité en lacet, technique qui est employée sur le C-17

Spanish

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Record 11 1990-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Burners and Steamfitting
CONT

The rotary oil burner is a horizontal atomizing unit consisting of only one moving part, a hollow steel shaft, on which are mounted the atomizing cup, the fan, and the motor rotor. These parts comprise the shaft assembly, which rotates on two ball bearings. The fuel oil is introduced by means of a stationary fuel tube extending through the centre of the hollow main shaft of the burner into the atomizing cup.... In the Ray rotary oil burner, the oil is introduced into the tail end of the fuel tube, passes through the tube, and flows out of the fuel tip into the back portion of the atomizing cup. The fuel tube and tip are stationary and the oil passages are such size that high pressure is not required to obtain the rated oil capacity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fumisterie et brûleurs

Spanish

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Record 12 1983-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Helicopters (Military)
CONT

Central tail fin has been replaced by an electronics package and horizontal stabilizer has two radar warning antennas, as does nose section.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hélicoptères (Militaire)
CONT

La dérive médiane a été remplacée par un compartiment électronique et l'empennage, horizontal porte deux des quatre antennes du détecteur de radars.

Spanish

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Record 13 1982-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Controls (Aeroindustry)
OBS

The newer Mastiff II [Israeli aircraft] has a pusher-propeller, a twin tail boom with top-mounted horizontal stabilizer above the fins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commandes de vol (Constructions aéronautiques)
OBS

La nouvelle version Mastiff II comporte une hélice propulsive et une queue bipoutre avec deux dérives surmontées d'un empennage horizontal.

Spanish

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Record 14 1981-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry
CONT

For flight trials, pilots burnt up as much as 907 kg(2, 000 lb) of forward fuel in order to achieve a thoroughly safe margin of horizontal tail control authority.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques
CONT

Les essais en vol ont confirmé ces prévisions: les pilotes ont constaté qu'il fallait consommer au moins 900 kg de carburant des réservoirs avant pour assurer une marge raisonnable de contrôle longitudinal.

Spanish

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Record 15 1981-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Controls (Aeroindustry)
OBS

Horizontal stabilizers. The horizontal airfoil of the tail/nose section to which the elevator/canard is attached.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commandes de vol (Constructions aéronautiques)
OBS

Empennages horizontaux. Profil horizontal de la partie arrière/avant du fuselage portant la gouverne de profondeur/canard.

Spanish

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Record 16 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Airframe

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cellule d'aéronefs

Spanish

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