The airframe

The airframe is made up of the wing, the fuselage work, the tail, the control unit and the chassis to land plane or floats in water aircraft. In Senkrechtstartern and gliders older types can instead of the chassis or the swimmers a runner landing gear available. Structural The structure consists in fixed wing aircraft wings, flaps and slats, rotary wing aircraft from one or more rotors. Empennage The tail is for fixed wing aircraft from the horizontal with the altitude rowing and related Trimmrudern, with the vertical rudder and the Trimmruder favour and the cross-rowing. For certain rotary wing aircraft may participate in the rotor blades are small rowing. Even a tail rotor, a Fenestron nozzle or a tax on the tail boom can be seen as pertaining to the tail. Moreover, the main task of Leitwerks the given flight and direction to stabilize and control to all three axes of the aircraft