When elevator is in up position to climb, the trim tab is neutral ... The pilot’s action is transmitted by a cable or rod that links to a mechanical arm, which moves the elevators.

We all know that we use elevator trim to reduce pressures on the yoke in flight and thereby make our airplanes easier to handle. You might reason that during an aborted landing you can leave the ...

But the inquiry says examination of the elevator trim tabs showed they had been fitted “upside-down and reversed”. “The connecting rod that attached the trim tab to the trim drum ...

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are looking into whether a metal component of the aircraft’s tail known as an elevator trim tab -- which appeared to be missing in ...

US investigators have confirmed that elevator trim cables on a Convair 580 freighter had been reversed before the aircraft crashed in Ohio last September with the loss of all three occupants.

HOLLIDAYSBURG — An effort to replace Blair County’s older courthouse elevator prompted a debate among commissioners Tuesday on whether to retain marble trim around the elevator entrance doors ...

Investigators found the reason a DHC-3 Turbine Otter crashed into Mutiny Bay in Washington. NTSB examination of the elevator actuator trim jack of a DHC-3 Turbine Otter that crashed on Sept.