flight control

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flight control (countable and uncountable, plural flight controls)

  1. (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.
  2. (aviation, by extension, uncountable) The process of controlling an aircraft's rotational or translational motion in one or more axes.
  3. (space flight, uncountable) Mission control.

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