flaps on the back edge of an aircraft's tail plane that control pitch.
Elevators are small flaps on the wings of the plane that you can create by folding either up or down on the front of the wings toward the middle of the plane. If you want your plane to fly higher or longer, then add up elevators. If it’s already flying to high and diving or making weird wobbly moves, put down elevators on the wings. One up and one down elevator will make your plane do incredible loops.
Pilot-controllable surfaces on the trailing edge of the horizontal stabilizer, used to pitch the aircraft's nose up or down or keep it level with the horizon, thus controlling airspeed. Elevators are controlled by the yoke. Pulling back on the yoke moves the elevators up, and the relative wind forces the tail downward while the nose pitches up. Releasing back pressure or applying forward pressure on the yoke produces the opposite result.
On an aeroplane, the elevators are a control surface usually on the trailing edge of the horizontal stabilizer. The elevators are used to control pitch.
Control surfaces hinged to the horizontal stabilizer which control the pitch of the airplane or the position of the nose of the airplane relative to the horizon.