flight control
noun1
Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A system for controlling an aircraft's rotational or translational motion in one or more axes.
- The airplane's primary flight controls comprise elevators and ailerons driven by manually-controlled servo tabs, and a hydraulically-powered rudder and spoilerons.
2
Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Broadly The process of controlling an aircraft's rotational or translational motion in one or more axes.
3
Mission control.
- Hyponyms
- control wheel, center stick, sidestick, joystick, yoke, cockpit control, control cable, aileron, elevator, elevon, flaperon, rudder, rudderon, ruddervator, spoiler, spoileron, stabilator, control surface