Stabilisers: Originally the pressure-inflated fabric fins at the rear of a dirigible airship or kite balloon. Now loosely applied to all fixed stabilising fins. In America the term for tailplane.
4 Horizontal stabilisers
5 Dihedral and anhedral
6 Wings vs. bodies
7 Variable geometry
8 Additional features
9 References ...
Longitudinal stability is also improved if the stabiliser is situated so that it lies
outside the influence of the main wing downwash.
Stabilisers are therefore often staggered and mounted at a different height in ...
However, unlike the longitudinal and normal planes where the horizontal and vertical stabilisers provide the restoring moments necessary for pitch and yaw stability, no similar restoring moment device exists in the lateral plane.
 See also: Leading, Dynamic, Fuselage, Flight, Leading edge
  
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