trim tab

1. (Aeronautics) a small control surface attached to the trailing edge of a main control surface to enable the pilot to trim an aircraft

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Despite the extensive damage to the aircraft the investigators found the trim tab on the elevator, which is found on the rear tailplane, was in a "significantly nose down position".

Out-of-control plane hit runway at 200mph; PILOT REPORTED PITCH CONTROL FAULT BEFORE FATAL CRASH

This system can employ an arrangement of cables wound around a drum and/or a jackscrew that transfers the pilot's motion into changes of the trim tab's position.

Trim Failures: The more automated your airplane, the more likely you'll experience a trim failure. Know the system well, fly the airplane and throw the correct switches

"Bridges tells us how Fuller, one of his heroes, introduced the metaphor of the 'trim tab' to explain how small changes can force large ones," The Wrap reported Oct.

Campaign aims to bring The Dude to Bucky Dome

Young Lion'shead brewer is Phillip Platz, formerly of Alabama's Trim Tab Brewing Co., who came on at the start of the brewery.

Young Lion Brewing unveils event space expansion

The ruddervators are the primary control surfaces for both pitch and yaw and are made of aluminum, and each has a large trailing edge pitch trim tab. Unlike the SR models, the SF50 has a manual pitch trim wheel in the center console.

Cirrus Vision Jet: Near Perfect Execution: The SF50 single-engine jet is everything cirrus said it would be. It flies higher and faster than an SR22, but familiar ergos and handling should ease transitions

M2 EQUITYBITES-July 19, 2017-Yamaha Acquires Adjustable Trim Tab Creator Bennett Marine

Yamaha Acquires Adjustable Trim Tab Creator Bennett Marine

The aerodynamic device investigated is an aerodynamic trim tab concept.

Characterization of aerodynamic design spaces for adjustable tractor surfaces

Mr Woodward said: "Work is progressing well to repair the damage to the trim tab and water jet steering gear, and I thought it might be of interest to share some photographs of the scale of the damage.

Travel chaos as second IOM ship damaged at sea; Sailings suspended after similar problem for replacement ferry

We inadvertently bent a trim tab on the main rotor blade.

Morale--the larger issue

From my observations as a daily newspaper reporter at Newport for several weeks before the Challenge Match, it was clear that Alan Bond had a potential Cup winner in Australia II, with Ben Lexcen not only creating the then-secret winged keeled, but also a beautiful underwater shape, keel, rudder and trim tab.

The real story: Editor-at-Large Peter Campbell was at Newport, Rhode Island thirty years ago this September to experience the extraordinary drama and ultimate victory of Australia II in the 1983 America's Cup Challenge Match

A physical trim tab failure was discovered post flight!

Flight safety

He said it looked as though a piece of the plane's tail, called a trim tab, had fallen off, causing the fighter's sudden climb.

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES; THREE KILLED AS PLANE PLUNGES INTO CROWD Dad's warning in air race horror

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