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Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word ELEVON
ELEVON
Definitions of ELEVON
- (aviation) A movable surface at the trailing edge of a tailless airplane (such as the space shuttle) that provides pitch and roll control.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
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Examples of Using ELEVON in a Sentence
- An elevon that is not part of the main wing, but instead is a separate tail surface, is a stabilator (but stabilators are also used for pitch control only, with no roll function, as on the Piper Cherokee series of aircraft).
- The rocket experienced a control oscillation as it went transonic, eventually leading to the failure of the rocket's starboard elevon.
- A comprehensive instrumentation package was fitted, with automatic recording of time, airspeed, altitude, wing tip incidence, flap angle, side-slip, roll rate, pitch rate, yaw rate, elevon hinge moment, elevon angles, rudder angles, ambient air temperature, normal acceleration (gy), longitudinal acceleration (gz), gyro attitude, pendulum attitude and bank angle.
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