flight control

English

flight control (countable and uncountable, plural flight controls)

(aviation, countable) A system for controlling an aircraft's rotational or translational motion in one or more axes.
The airplane's primary flight controls comprise elevators and ailerons driven by manually-controlled servo tabs and a hydraulically-powered rudder and spoilerons.
(aviation, by extension, uncountable) The process of controlling an aircraft's rotational or translational motion in one or more axes.
(space flight, uncountable) Mission control.

(aircraft control mechanism):

aviation: system

aviation: process

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