Elevator

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What Wikipedia says

Elevators are flight control surfaces, usually at the rear of an aircraft, which control the aircraft's pitch, and therefore the angle of attack and the lift of the wing. The elevators are usually hinged to the tailplane or horizontal stabilizer.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Elevator (aeronautics)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Editor: Nancy Hall; Glenn Research Center, NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.