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The vertical stabilizer is to provide additional anti torque force to the fuselage once the aircraft has forward motion and airflow across the lifting surface. The design makes use of forward motion and the resulting airflow to create an anti torq...
Stabilator (a portmanteau of stabilizer-elevator) is also known in aircraft terminology as all moving tailplane, all-movable tail(plane), all-moving stabilizer, all flying tail(plane), full-flying stabilizer, flying tail and slab tailplane. Contents.owever, such adjustable stabilizers are not the same as stabilators; a stabilator is controlled by the pilot's control yoke (or stick), when an adjustable stabilizer is controlled by the trim system. One example of an airliner with a genuine stabilator used for flight control is the Lockheed L-1011.