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Definitions of ailerons in various dictionaries:
noun - an airfoil that controls lateral motion
noun - a movable control surface on an airplane wing
AILERONS - An aileron (French for "little wing" or "fin") is a hinged flight control surface usually forming part of the trailing edge of each wing of a fixed-w...
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| These hinged flaps on the trailing edges of wings are used to make an airplane bank to the right or to the left |
| Rosaline adjusts these before landing her Cessna |
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| Plural form of aileron. |
| a hinged surface in the trailing edge of an aeroplane wing, used to control the roll of an aircraft about its longitudinal axis. |
| A hinged surface in the trailing edge of an aeroplane wing, used to control the roll of an aircraft about its longitudinal axis. |
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An aileron (French for "little wing" or "fin") is a hinged flight control surface usually forming part of the trailing edge of each wing of a fixed-wing aircraft. Ailerons are used in pairs to control the aircraft in roll (or movement around the aircraft's longitudinal axis), which normally results in a change in flight path due to the tilting of the lift vector. Movement around this axis is called 'rolling' or 'banking'. * The modern aileron was invented and patented by the British scientist Matthew Piers Watt Boulton in 1868, based on his 1864 paper On Aërial Locomotion. Even though there was extensive prior art in the 19th century for the aileron and its functional analog, wing warping, in 1906 the United States granted an expansive patent to the Wright Brothers of Dayton, Ohio, for the invention of a system of aerodynamic control that manipulated an airplane's control surfaces. Considerable litigation ensued within the United States over the legal issues of lateral roll control, unt |