The problem occurred in an elevon, a movable surface that helps control the plane by deflecting the flow of air at the back of the wing.
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Unlike previous versions, this aircraft featured a leading-edge flap to increase lift at low speeds, and to allow a slight down-elevon deflection.
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In May 1998, a British Airways Concorde lost a section of an elevon, a device on the tail used to make the nose point up or down.
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It was not immediately clear whether the crash occurred because the problem was not fully corrected, or if something else had made the elevon flutter and then break off.
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While canards generally have poor stealth characteristics, the flight control system is designed to maintain the elevon trim and canards at an angle at which they have the smallest RCS.
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In May 1953, the balsa wood strips were again removed, and the X-4's dynamic stability was studied in the original flap / speed brake and elevon configuration.
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Maag has designed several typefaces as part of his design work at Dalton Maag : Aktiv Grotesk, Co, Dedica, Elevon, InterFace, Plume, Royalty, Stroudley and Viato.
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In the initial design, elevon ( combined elevator and aileron ) control surfaces were set into the trailing edge of the aft wing section, on either side of a vertical rudder.
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After the elevon fell off, the single-seat, wedge-shaped plane went into a slow spin and fell to the ground, landing in a neighborhood of single-family houses but not hitting any directly.
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A sizable hole _ 4 inches by 2 inches ( 10 centimeters by 5 centimeters ) _ was found burned into a left inboard elevon actuator, likely the result of the heat from re-entry, Tetrault said.
