what is an aileron?

Answer 1

Ailerons are hinged control surfaces attached to the trailing edge of the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft. They are used to control the aircraft in roll.

Answer 2

An aileron is on the wings of the aircraft. It is not a flap. Ailerons control the roll of the airplane. The three control surfaces on an aircraft are the aileron, elevator and rudder. Elevator controls pitch and rudder controls yaw. If you ever look inside the cockpit of an aircraft you will see the yolk(Steering wheel looking thing). When you turn this left or right the airplane will roll in the direction of your turn but to turn the aircraft in what is called a coordinated turn you must apply some pressure to the rudder witch is controlled by your feet. As an example to an aileron roll: When the blue angels just kind of flip over inverted all that is used is the aileron.

Answer 3

They are hinged surfaces on the trailing edge of a wing that move opposite to each other to roll the aircraft. They are always installed in pairs, connected to each other through a balance cable or rod, and are both controlled by the pilot.

Most are installed on the outboard edge of the wing but many planes (typically high performance jets) have them installed inboard on the wing closer to the fuselage. Some aircraft (mostly jets) two sets, inboard ailerons (for high and low speed flight) and outboard ailerons for low speed flight only.

Aerobatic aircraft often have full-span ailerons that go from the wing root to the tip.

Answer 4

An aileron is a hinged movable surface attached to the trailing edge of a wing and located on both the left and right outboard portions of the wing of conventional aircraft. The ailerons are moved using linkage going to the control wheel in the cockpit. When the control wheel is postioned down on the left away from center, the left aileron moves up to create downward lift, while at the same time the right aileron moves down to create more upward lift. This downward and upward lift is relative to your position in the cockpit. The simultaneous opposite movements of the left and right aileron will cause the airplane to roll until the control is then set back to center. This allows the airplane to be in a bank. To roll the airplane back to wings level, position the control wheel down to the right until wings level, and then position the control back center. As the amount of travel of the control wheel increases away from center or neutral, so does the ailerons, and so increases the rate of roll.

By the way, on a Citation X business jet, full control wheel deflection is 68 degrees in either direction to provide a maximum aileron deflection of 15 degrees up or down. Mechanical inputs from the control wheel are transferred to linkage acting on hydraulic contol units and are connected to output cables and push rods, which are connected to the ailerons. In the Citation X, up to 3,000 lbs of hydraulic pressure is available to various systems using hydraulics for power assist. The hydraulic gets it's power from each engine. If one engine were to shutdown, there is sufficient power from the other engine. If both hydraulic systems, left and right were to become unusable, the system reverts to manual, and requires more physical strength to move the controls. There is also a roll spoiler system to assist the ailerons in the Citation X. The spoilers on the downward moving wing activate once the control wheel deflection has exceeded 14 degrees for the outboard spoilers and 6 degrees of aileron deflection for the inboard spoilers. A spoiler remains flat in level flight and only moves up and back to flat. They are located near the trailing edge of the wing between the ailerons and the flaps.

Answer 5

The french word actually translates to flap.

USAF jargon for these is as follows:

The flaps are inboard (toward the fuselage) on the back of the wing and are usually used for landing or slow flight. They basically create a larger wing surface. During regular flight, the flaps are not extended.

The ailerons are outboard and are used for roll control (turns). Many of our aircraft have only one aileron that is controlled. The other is adjusted on the ground to keep the aircraft level when the aileron position on the instrument panel is at zero degrees.

Answer 6

There are three main, or basic, control surfaces on a fixed wing aircraft. The aileron, eleron and the rudder. They control the three
axis of flight, pitch, yaw, and roll. The aileron controls roll, the eleron (or elevator) pitch and the rudder, yaw.

Answer 7

ai‧ler‧on –noun 1. Aeronautics. a movable surface, usually near the trailing edge of a wing, that controls the roll of the airframe or effects maneuvers, as banks and the like.
2. a wall at the end of a roof with a single slope, as that of a church aisle.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aileron

Answer 8

aileron is a frech word, litterally means small wing; however, the word is used in aviation/aeronotics for part of a wing of an aeroplane.(not exctly sure which part though, but if I am not mistaken it is on of the parts that moves to change the shape of the wings when the aeroplane is landing/taking off)

Answer 9

the flaps on the edge of the wings to make the plane roll right or left http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileron gl

Answer 10

Main Entry: ai·le·ron
Function: noun
Pronunciation: 'A-l&-"rän
Etymology: French, from diminutive of aile wing -- more at AISLE
: a movable airfoil at the trailing edge of an airplane wing that is used for imparting a rolling motion especially in banking for turns -- see AIRPLANE illustration