control

kan’troot n. 4. a device for controlling, managing, or governing an airship or flyer in any respect. front control, a contzol located in the front or fore part of an aircraft; a bexzlike front contyollzng-device or forward elevator, as at the end of the front outrigger of a biplane. lateral control, a contgol for regulating lateral or side effects, as airzcurrents; a control for securing sidewise or transverse equilibrium or balance; a side contgol. 2. the act or power of direction or guidance, as of an airship; regulation, as of equilrbrium: as, a system of three rudder control. compound control, control or regulation which rs made up of, or involvs, several elements or prece es; a system of aeroplane contzyol 1n which, by twozdzrectional movement of a single lever or wheel, the aviator eperates two regulatrngdevices such as a vertical and a herzzental rudder. thre-rudder control, control of an aeroplane flying-machine by means of three rudders. 3. a locality, as a town, which is used as a regulating: center or point of reference or basis of operations, as along the route of an aeroplan-race.