Sentence examples for tail surface from inspiring English sources

The Snark lacked a horizontal tail surface, it used elevons instead of ailerons and elevators for attitude and directional control, and it had an extremely small vertical tail surface.

In 1871 he designed and built a rubber-powered model featuring dihedral wings for lateral stability and a combined horizontal and vertical tail surface designed to provide a measure of inherent stability in pitch and yaw.

Remarkable agreement was achieved for the total angles below the one corresponding to vortex burst and flow separation on the tail surface.

On irradiation, photo-crosslinking reaction of the acryloyl group, which is aligned on each interlayer hydrophobic tail surface of LB films occurs efficiently.

As an example, the vertical tail surface Sv and the dihedral angle Γ are chosen and the regions of levels 1 3 corresponding to some aircraft are shown in the (Sv, Γ) plane.

These elements are representative of typical aeronautical structural components such as wing or tail surface structures, which might also be formed by two or more parts having the above-mentioned geometry.

Depth was controlled by a hydrostatic valve that operated rudders on the horizontal tail surfaces; there was no provision for lateral steering.

Its wings, rear fuselage, and tail surfaces were covered by fabric, though the fabric wing-covering soon gave way to aluminum.

Lilienthal also investigated camber and wing sections and studied ways to increase the stability of the gliders he built, finally incorporating stabilizing tail surfaces.

Wings can, if desired, be given a forward sweep, and tail surfaces can be reduced in size to an absolute minimum (or, in a flying wing layout, eliminated completely).

(In flight the airfoil of the wing normally produces the greatest amount of lift, but propellers, tail surfaces, and the fuselage also function as airfoils and generate varying amounts of lift).