The horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged.
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The aircraft just lay there with its huge tailplane upraised.
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Nose, wings, and tailplane crumpled and tore, barbed fragments spinning off into the night.
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Lia, meanwhile, had been looking at a piece of the tailplane that had been left behind.
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Day five is for the horizontal stabilizer install and the start of functional tests.
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Finally Anakin's rod broke completely, snapping off both the armature and the main horizontal stabilizer.
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The bullets destroyed the horizontal stabilizer, damaged the tail rotor, and punched holes in the tail pylon, disabling the aircraft.
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The FAA directive ordered operators to revise the airplane flight manual to give flight crews horizontal stabilizer trim procedures to follow under certain conditions.
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The company said it would also produce the wings and vertical and horizontal stabilizers for both aircraft.