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10. In lift off the elevators, the rear flaps on the tail assembly are up.

This causes
the air to follow a longer path on the top of the tail wings creating less air
pressure and lift, right? To turn the plane, the flaps on the turning side are down,
causing the air to follow a longer path below the wing and decreasing lift on that
side. Is this explanation right, and is the same true for the fuselage wings? Do
the flaps move up to increase lift?
It is difficult to understand what you are asking since your terminology is a bit confusing.
First of all, I recommend that you review a previous article to better understand the
different parts of a typical airplane.

Aircraft control surfaces and axes of motion

Most of your question seems to revolve around the surfaces called elevators. You may
also be asking about ailerons and wing flaps as well. Regardless, all three work in
similar ways to perform different functions.
The elevator deflects up and down. Even though the elevator is often times split into two
pieces between the right and left sides of the plane, it always deflects as a single unit. In
other words, the two sides always deflect up together by the same amount and down
together by the same amount. In so doing, they change the amount of lift generated by
the horizontal tail, also called the horizonal stabilizer. If the elevator deflects upwards, it

generates negative lift, or down force. By pulling the back of the plane down, this force
causes the aircraft nose to pitch or tilt upwards. If the elevator deflects downward, it
generates positive lift that pulls the back of the plane up and causes the nose to pitch
down.

Aircraft control surfaces and positive deflection angles

Ailerons are two small surfaces on the wingtips. These devices move in opposite
directions. When one moves down, the other moves up. The one that moves down
generates more lift. The one that moves up creates less. The difference in lift between
one side of the plane and the other causes the plane to roll towards the wing with the up
aileron.
Flaps are located on the back of both wings, closer to the center of the plane than the
ailerons. These surfaces are like elevators in that they always deflect together by the
same amount. The difference is that they only deflect downwards. When they do so,
they create more lift on both sides of the plane equally.
The pattern you should see here is that the direction of deflection always creates more
lift in the opposite direction. If you deflect the elevator, an aileron, or the flaps
downward, each surface always create a lift force in an upward direction. The reason for
this behavior is that the air has to follow a longer path over the top, which creates a
lower pressure that results in lift.

Lift on an airfoil

Increased lift on an airfoil with a flap or similar surface deflected

I believe the heart of your question is:


In lift off the elevators, the rear flaps on the tail assembly are up. This causes the air to
follow a longer path on the top of the tail wings creating less air pressure and lift, right?
Actually, this statement is wrong. As we have seen, the longer path in this case would
be over the bottom of the horizontal tail. Since the elevator is deflected upward, the lift it
creates will be a down force in this case

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