ppl. a. [f. STABILIZE v. + -ING2.] That stabilizes or gives stability; spec. in Aeronautics, that gives stability (to an aeroplane, etc.); that acts or may be used as a stabilizer.
1911. Encycl. Sport, I. 16/2. In the Voisin machine there are vertical panels in the main planes, which … automatically check these oscillations, and a stabilising box at the rear. Ibid., 17/2. No really satisfactory stabilising device has yet been invented.
1911. Daily Mail, 28 Oct., 5/7. A large stabilising vane fixed to the front of his aeroplane.
