stabilizatorn.
/steɪbɪlʌɪˈzeɪtə/ Aeronautics.
= stabilizer n.
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1902 Santos-Dumont in London Mag. June 461 How much resistance will the guide-rope, which I shall use as a stabilizator, offer as it trails in the water?
1912 T. F. Farman in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 139/2 Securing its horizontal and lateral stability by working the stabilisator and the mechanism for warping the wings.
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