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Exploring the Essential Sections of an Aircraft: A Comprehensive Guide

Pilot's Life Blog

All of these primary control surfaces serve as a horizontal stabilizer for the plane. You’ll find a horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, elevator, and rudder pedals here. The engine creates thrust by burning fuel. You’ll find them on either the leading edge or trailing edge of the wing.

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The Fastest Warbird: Darryl Greenamyer and the RB-104 “Red Baron”

Vintage Aviation News

THE RED AND WHITE JET WENT BY WITHOUT A SOUND. The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard. The horizontal stabilizer came from a wrecked F-104G. It could not be made official because of a failed FAI camera. IMPOSSIBLE.

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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

A significant investment in heavy, water-jet cut steel tooling means repeatedly accurate wings come off the Composite Creations table. Just recognizable in the background is a horizontal stabilizer and one-piece elevator. Gweduck is also in the final design phase of things such as interior components (seats, etc.)