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Created: 2025-07-08 08:59:00 UTC

✈️ Aircraft Wing & Control Surfaces – Simple Guide! 🛫

- Ailerons: Help the plane roll (left/right tilt) ↩️↪️

- Elevators: Control the pitch (up/down nose) ⬆️⬇️

- Rudder: Turns the plane left or right (yaw) 🔄

- Flaps: Increase lift during takeoff and landing 🪂

- Types: Foreflap, Midflap, Attflap

- Slats & Leading Edge Flaps: Help with airflow at slow speeds 🌬️

- Spoilers: Reduce lift and help slow down or - descend 🛑

- Tabs (Control, Trim, Balance): Help ease control pressure 🧠🛠️

📘 Covers Boeing XXX & XXX designs with wing section views for flap settings.

These surfaces keep the plane balanced, controlled, and safe in the air! 🧭✈️✅

📸 by fb/jetflix

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