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lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend
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An elevator is a transport device used to move goods or people vertically. In British English and other Commonwealth Englishes, elevators are known more commonly as lifts, although the word elevator is familiar from American movies and television shows, just as some Americans are aware of lift from imported entertainment. Other languages may have loanwords based on either elevator (e.g. Japanese) or lift (e.g. Cantonese). In Texas, they have been referred to as a 'vader, which George W. ...
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Elevators are control surfaces, usually at the rear of an aircraft, which control the aircraft's orientation by changing the pitch of the aircraft, and so also the angle of attack of the wing. An increased angle of attack will cause a greater lift to be produced by the profile of the wing, and (if no power is added or available), a slowing of the aircraft. A decreased angle of attack will produce an increase in speed (a dive). ...
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horizontal flap on the tail which is used to move the plane up and down
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a movable hinged panel along the back edge of an aircrafts tailplane. When both strips swivel up, the aircraft tilts tail-down and vice-versa
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