RUDDERVATOR / RUDDERVATORS - The control surfaces on an airplane with a V-tail configuration. They are located at the trailing edge of each of the two airfoils making up the tail of the plane.
Ruddervators (V tail, butterfly tail)
3.Horizontal stabilizers placed midway up vertical stabilizer
4. Double fins connected to fuselage by horizontal stabilizer (H tail)
5. Double fins and horizontal stabilizers attached to fuselage
6.
The theoretical advantage of this design is the reduced interference drag associated with two surfaces instead of three. On the V-tail the combined rudders and elevators are known as Ruddervators. The engineering is more complicated in this system.
 See also: Flight, Aircraft, Rudder, Force, Elevator
  
|
RSS
