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  • noun Plural form of aileron.

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Examples

  • Instead of wing-warping, which puts a strain on the supporting surfaces and is liable to distort them, the French (to whom Blériot is believed to have shown the way) introduced ailerons, that is, small subsidiary hinged planes attached to the extremities of the wings.

    The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

  • We have located control surfaces, such as ailerons, the elevator, and the rudder.

    CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2006 2006

  • Right now we have aircraft control surfaces that allow discrete morphing such as ailerons and flaps.

    University of Toronto -- News@UofT 2008

  • Hand pressure on the side stick controller sends electrical signals to actuators of flight control surfaces such as ailerons and rudder. avionics) would constantly be updated, so the aircraft has a

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Unlike traditional flight control systems that connect external surfaces like ailerons, rudders and elevators directly to the yokes and rudder pedals in the cockpit, fly-by-wire systems send electrical signals to various controls, instead of a direct mechanical connection.

    Four Killed as Gulfstream Jet Crashes Peter Sanders 2011

  • The strutted wing and ailerons are skinned with aluminium sheets.

    Civil engineering in Africa: the only way is up for young inventors Caspar Llewellyn Smith 2010

  • But during the approach to return and land at Singapore ' s international airport, some of the plane ' s ailerons apparently weren ' t working properly, pilots familiar with the incident said.

    Qantas Jet Damage Details Emerge Andy Pasztor 2010

  • For more than an hour he muscled the plane along, using ailerons to stay level and land in Berlin.

    Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

  • Big Boeing had used Kevlar skins with honeycomb inside the flaps and ailerons of its Boeing 757 commercial airliners, which went into service in 1983.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Moog is another aerospace supplier, specializing in electromechanical systems that position moving parts such as flaps, ailerons, elevators on aircraft or missiles as well as gun sights on armored vehicles, ships, planes and provide the real-world experience in flight simulators.

    Buy Boeing, It'll Be Busy For A While 2010

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