the lever by which a pilot controls the lateral and longitudinal movements of an aircraft
Also called: control column, joy stick
control stick in American English
noun
Aeronautics
a lever by which a pilot controls the ailerons and elevator of an aircraft
Word origin
[1930–35]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cloverleaf, hypercorrection, logical positivism, old school tie, uncertainty principle
Examples of 'control stick' in a sentence
control stick
Feeling the directness of the control stick in relation to the plane is like nothing else.