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n. - An airfoil that controls lateral motion.

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Usage examples (37)
  • The three basic maneuvers which illustrate this are the loop, aileron roll and stall turn respectively.
  • That caused the -- with the drag and the hole in the aileron, that is what caused the uncontrolled roll.
  • I've removed 'aileron' because it is not italicised & has an obvious pronunciation; similarly with menagerie.
  • I read him checklists, learning words like "aileron," "magnetos," and "pitot" that no one else in my first-grade class knew.
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