Aircraft controls

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thumb|Modern ship rudder (the tall red rectangle behind the propeller (marine)|propeller) thumbnail|right|'s rudder turned

thumb|right thumb|right|An aircraft "rolling" or "banking", with its ailerons thumb|An aileron and roll trim tab of a light aircraft 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.

thumb|The Airbus A320 family was the first [[airliner to feature a full glass cockpit and digital fly-by-wire flight control system. The only analogue instruments were the radio magnetic indicator, brake pressure indicator, standby altimeter and artificial horizon, the latter two being replaced by a digital integrated standby instrument system in later production models.]] Fly-by-wire (FBW) is a system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface. The movements of flight controls are converted to electronic signals, and flight control comput

type of flight control surface

Avitation touchdown tool

aircraft wing device used to increase lift by extending the trailing edge of the wing

flight control surface used on an aircraft to increase drag

aeronautics device for reducing aerodynamic lift, plates on the top surface of a wing

surface that allows a pilot to adjust and control an aircraft's flight attitude

thumb|upright=1.2|The horizontal stabiliser is the fixed horizontal surface of the empennage

thumb|Boeing 777 flaperon thumb|Flaperons on a Denney Kitfox Model 3, built in 1991 thumb|right|Flaperons (Junkers style) on an [[ICP Savannah Model S, built in 2010]] thumb|Operation of the flaperon of a Boeing 777 during left and right banking A flaperon (portmanteau of flap and aileron) on an aircraft wing is a type of control surface that combines the functions of both flaps and ailerons. Some kitplanes have flaperons for simplicity of manufacture, while large commercial aircraft such as the Boeing 747, 767, 777, and 787 may have a flaperon between the flaps and aileron. The 787 has a Spoi

small surfaces connected to the trailing edge of a larger control surface on a boat or aircraft, used to control the trim of the controls

tail fin(s), usually placed on the aircraft tail, where rudder and elevator is mounted

Elevons or tailerons are aircraft control surfaces that combine the functions of the elevator (used for pitch control) and the aileron (used for roll control), hence the name. They are frequently used on tailless aircraft such as flying wings. An elevon that is not part of the main wing, but instead is a separate tail surface, is a stabilator (but stabilators are also used for pitch control only, with no roll function, as on the Piper Cherokee series of aircraft).

aircraft component

deployable aerodynamic surface on the leading edge of the aircraft wings to decrease the stall speed

aircraft component that allows to control the thrust output of the aircraft's engines

thumb|Airbus A380 flight deck with black side-sticks on the left side of the left seat and on the right side of the right seat. The throttle controls in the central console are black, labeled 1–4. thumb|F-16 cockpit showing side-stick

thumb|Thrust levers of an Airbus A320 family|A320 set to the autothrust position during cruise flight

mechanical device to rapidly and noisily vibrate the control yoke of an aircraft to warn the pilot of an imminent stall.

thumb|440x440px|General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16 simulator [[side-stick controller functional allocation (for the right hand)]] thumb|440x440px|General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16 simulator throttle functional allocation (for the left hand) HOTAS (hands on throttle-and-stick) is the concept of placing buttons and switches on the throttle lever and flight control stick in an aircraft cockpit. By adopting such an arrangement, pilots are capable of performing all vital functions as well as flying the aircraft without having to remove their hands from the controls.

thumb|upright=1.35|Italian Air Force Panavia Tornado|Tornado with a spoileron deployed In aeronautics, spoilerons (also known as spoiler ailerons or roll spoilers) are spoilers that can be used asymmetrically as flight control surfaces to provide roll control.

device to reduce yaw oscillations in aircraft

thumb|right|Grumman F-14 Tomcat jet fighter during a takeoff, with stabilators deflected upwards

Aerodynamic device

instruments used in helicopter flight

switch on the autothrottle of modern large aircraft

Device on aircraft control surface

jet nozzle at the tip of some helicopter rotor blades

type of attitude control surface used on rockets and bombs

powered aerodynamic high-lift devices used on the wings of certain aircraft

aircraft cockpit arrangement

mechanism that locks control surfaces and keeps open aircraft doors in place while the aircraft is parked on the ground

An autobrake is a type of automatic wheel-based hydraulic brake system for advanced airplanes. The autobrake is normally enabled during takeoff and landing procedures, when the aircraft's longitudinal deceleration system can be handled by the automated systems of the aircraft itself in order to keep the pilot free to perform other tasks.

human machine interface extension of an aircraft's control system that prevents the pilot of an aircraft from making control commands that would force the aircraft to exceed its structural and aerodynamic operating limits

aerodynamic device

Actuator operated electrically

thumb|250px|An A-10 Thunderbolt II with its decelerons opened