Sentence examples for movable surface from inspiring English sources

Experts from the F.A.A., the National Transportation Safety Board and Boeing were on their way to Portland and Seattle to examine those two planes' jackscrews, which control the position of the horizontal stabilizer, a movable surface on the tail that helps keep the plane level.

A proportional integral derivative (PID) controller is designed and attached to electro-hydraulic servo actuator system (EHSAS) to control the angular position of the rotary actuator which control the movable surface of space vehicles.

Normally, to make an airplane return to level flight, pilots use movable surfaces on the wings called ailerons.

Still, the crew was able to regain control by moving the elevators, the movable surfaces at the rear third of the tail, about half their maximum travel distance.

It involves the controls on the two elevator panels, the movable surfaces on the horizontal tail that point the plane's nose up or down.

The ailerons are movable surfaces hinged to the trailing edge of each wing, which move in the opposite direction to control movement around the aircraft's longitudinal axis.

The essential components of an airplane are a wing system to sustain it in flight, tail surfaces to stabilize the wings, movable surfaces to control the attitude of the plane in flight, and a power plant to provide the thrust necessary to push the vehicle through the air.

Triboelectric charge generation on movable surfaces is the principle used for conducting electrons through external loads.

Curtiss got around the patent by using ailerons instead separate, movable surfaces at the back of each wing, like those found on today's airplanes.

Impacts are present in real aircraft movable surfaces, such as ailerons, flaps, rudder, elevators, trim tabs among other secondary control surfaces leading to complex, dangerous, and abrupt transitions.

The level of precision needed for measuring interaction forces in the plane plane geometry requires also a particular attention on the insertion of a force detection system into a plane/plane set-up with movable surfaces.