2006-12-20 07:40:04 · 9 answers · asked by andy 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
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Aileronaileron (plural: ailerons)
hinged part on trailing edge of an airplane wing. Used to control lateral turns
2006-12-20 07:42:47 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The Aileron is a movable flap on an airplane wing, used to control the plane's banking and rolling.
In order to bank and begin a turn, a conventional airplane will deflect control surfaces on the trailing edge of the wings known as ailerons. In order to bank left, the left aileron is lifted up into the airstream over the left wing, creating a small amount of drag and decreasing the lift produced by that wing. At the same time, the right aileron is pushed down into the airstream, thereby increasing slightly the lift produced by the right wing. The right wing then comes up, the left wing goes down, and the airplane banks to the left. To bank to the right, the ailerons are moved in exactly the opposite fashion.
2006-12-20 18:21:57 · answer #2 · answered by cheasy123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ailerons can be used to generate a rolling motion for an aircraft. Ailerons are small hinged sections on the outboard portion of a wing. Ailerons usually work in opposition: as the right aileron is deflected upward, the left is deflected downward, and vice versa.
2006-12-21 06:30:31 · answer #3 · answered by mach_92 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ailerons are control surfaces, they are placed on the trailing edge, on the main wing.
They are asymmetric control surfaces(if the right move up, the left move down), used to control the airplane around roll axis (the stick moving right and left).
In special cases ailerons duty is solved by surfaces that have more tasks: flaperons(ailerons+flaps), elevons or tailerons(ailerons+elevators)
2006-12-20 12:04:20 · answer #4 · answered by sparviero 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Control surfaces on the wings which move in opposite directions (ie: left goes up, right goes down) that initate bank. Bank does not make an airplane turn unless used in conjunction with the rudder. They can, however, be used to for an aileron roll.
2006-12-20 10:00:18 · answer #5 · answered by colglennlarson 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ailerons are located on the aft section of the wing, on the outboard ends.
They control the roll (banking left/right) of the aircraft.
2006-12-20 16:23:47 · answer #6 · answered by strech 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Threr is not an aileron IN a air plane there on the out side
2006-12-21 06:09:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ailerons are located, on the trailing edge of the wing - starting from the midpoint towards the tip of the wing. They move in opposite directions to turn aircraft while in the air.
2006-12-20 07:58:14 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is usually located on the training edge of the wings and it is used to control or initiate roll, not turns.
2006-12-20 07:47:59 · answer #9 · answered by RANDLE W 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋