This allows both the main wing and the horizontal stabilizer to be reduced in size.
This up and down motion moves the horizontal stabilizer for the trim system.
The horizontal stabilizer makes the nose of the plane point up or down.
The crew had reported to mechanics on the ground that they could not control the horizontal stabilizer.
The horizontal stabilizer was also raised a few inches to give better ground clearance.
Well, whatever it was that had just pulled itself loose must have been part of the horizontal stabilizers.
But a horizontal stabilizer near the nose makes it look different from all of today's commercial passenger jets.
The only stock components on the two aircraft are the horizontal stabilizers.
It turned out that all three had been lost through a malfunction in the horizontal stabilizer, not by enemy action.
Block 15 was the first major change to the F-16 with larger horizontal stabilizers.
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