wind-draught

Updated: May 6, 2025

Unless this is done, and if the machine is, say, at its normal horizontal angle when the engine is stopped, the sudden removal of pressure from the tail-planes of the craft, brought about by the absence of the wind-draught from the propeller, may cause the tail so to droop as to render inoperative any subsequent action of the elevator.

Claude Grahame-White - Learning to Fly: A Practical Manual for Beginners