flight control

English

Noun

flight control (countable and uncountable, plural flight controls)

1. (aviation, countable) 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. (aviation, by extension, uncountable) The process of controlling an aircraft's rotational or translational motion in one or more axes.
3. (space flight, uncountable) Mission control.

Hyponyms

(aircraft control mechanism):

• cockpit control
  • control wheel
  • joystick
    • center stick
    • sidestick
  • yoke
• control cable
• control surface
  • aileron
  • elevator
  • elevon
  • flaperon
  • rudder
  • rudderon
  • ruddervator
  • spoiler
  • spoileron
  • stabilator

Translations

aviation: system

• Finnish: vakausjärjestelmä

aviation: process

• Finnish: vakautus (fi)