Usually means: Horizontal stabilizer on an aircraft.
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  1. tailplane: Merriam-Webster
  2. tailplane: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tailplane: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. tailplane: Wordnik
  6. tailplane: Wiktionary
  7. tailplane: Dictionary.com
  8. Tailplane: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. tailplane: Rhymezone
  10. tailplane: FreeDictionary.org
  11. tailplane: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. tailplane: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  A horizontal airfoil, at the rear of an aircraft, to which the elevator is attached; usually associated with the tailfin

Similar:
horizontal stabilizer, stabilator, tail, tail boom, T-tail, tailboom, taileron, elevon, vertical stabilizer, aileron, more...

Opposite:
noseplane, frontplane, foreplane

Adjectives:
horizontal, fixed, moving, vertical, high, large, incidence, variable, starboard, conventional, triangular

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Similar:
horizontal stabilizer, stabilator, tail, tail boom, T-tail, tailboom, taileron, elevon, vertical stabilizer, aileron, more...

Opposite:
noseplane, frontplane, foreplane

Adjectives:
horizontal, fixed, moving, vertical, high, large, incidence, variable, starboard, conventional, triangular



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