Sentence examples for movable surfaces from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

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.

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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.

Staff members described how a mechanic who had never done the job before was assigned to adjust the tail controls on the Beech 1900D, and botched the job so that the movable horizontal surfaces, which control the airplane's horizontal pitch, lost half their ability to push the nose down.