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tail plane
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tail plane1
First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences
The fuselage may have become warped upward or downward, thus giving the tail-plane an incorrect angle of incidence.
From Project Gutenberg
The tail-plane may be mounted upon the fuselage at a wrong angle of incidence, in which case it must be corrected.
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He was eventually killed through the breaking of the tail-plane of his machine in descending at a flying meeting at Bournemouth.
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Tail-Plane—A horizontal stabilizing surface mounted at some distance behind the main lifting surface.
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Nacelle—That part of an aeroplane containing the engine and pilot and passenger, and to which the tail plane is not fixed.
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