Vertical stabilizer

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Vertical stabilizer

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Vertical stabilizer - static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft, often with movable (side) rudders hinged to it to provide control, stability and trim in yaw. Article “Vertical stabilizer” in English Wikipedia has 69.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 40 references and 15 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Vertical stabilizer” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Vertical stabilizer”, its content was written by 128 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 418 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 730 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4593 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #13169 in May 2005
  • Global: #6469 in September 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #42702 in June 2009
  • Global: #55676 in June 2009

There are 23 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Vertical stabilizer
69.7575
2French (fr)
Dérive (empennage)
54.3648
3Arabic (ar)
مثبت رأسي
54.0578
4Serbian (sr)
Вертикални реп
29.9908
5Portuguese (pt)
Estabilizador vertical
27.5727
6Korean (ko)
수직 꼬리 날개
25.7246
7Catalan (ca)
Estabilitzador vertical
22.3395
8Japanese (ja)
垂直尾翼
21.7156
9Finnish (fi)
Sivuvakain
19.4394
10Spanish (es)
Estabilizador vertical
18.8876
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Vertical stabilizer" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Vertical stabilizer
1 318 276
2Japanese (ja)
垂直尾翼
336 334
3German (de)
Seitenleitwerk
202 185
4Russian (ru)
Киль (авиация)
135 706
5French (fr)
Dérive (empennage)
82 703
6Spanish (es)
Estabilizador vertical
67 571
7Italian (it)
Deriva (aeronautica)
48 179
8Dutch (nl)
Kielvlak
25 734
9Czech (cs)
Svislá ocasní plocha
22 511
10Hungarian (hu)
Függőleges vezérsík
19 023
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Vertical stabilizer" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Vertical stabilizer
9 436
2German (de)
Seitenleitwerk
2 337
3Japanese (ja)
垂直尾翼
1 681
4Russian (ru)
Киль (авиация)
669
5French (fr)
Dérive (empennage)
408
6Spanish (es)
Estabilizador vertical
281
7Italian (it)
Deriva (aeronautica)
271
8Finnish (fi)
Sivuvakain
134
9Turkish (tr)
Dikey stabilizatör
133
10Czech (cs)
Svislá ocasní plocha
116
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Vertical stabilizer" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Vertical stabilizer
128
2French (fr)
Dérive (empennage)
53
3German (de)
Seitenleitwerk
51
4Japanese (ja)
垂直尾翼
33
5Russian (ru)
Киль (авиация)
22
6Dutch (nl)
Kielvlak
21
7Hungarian (hu)
Függőleges vezérsík
18
8Italian (it)
Deriva (aeronautica)
16
9Czech (cs)
Svislá ocasní plocha
9
10Spanish (es)
Estabilizador vertical
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Vertical stabilizer" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
مثبت رأسي
1
2English (en)
Vertical stabilizer
1
3Korean (ko)
수직 꼬리 날개
1
4Azerbaijani (az)
Şaquli stabilizator
0
5Catalan (ca)
Estabilitzador vertical
0
6Czech (cs)
Svislá ocasní plocha
0
7Danish (da)
Halefinne (fly)
0
8German (de)
Seitenleitwerk
0
9Spanish (es)
Estabilizador vertical
0
10Finnish (fi)
Sivuvakain
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Vertical stabilizer" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Italian (it)
Deriva (aeronautica)
977
2English (en)
Vertical stabilizer
730
3Japanese (ja)
垂直尾翼
521
4German (de)
Seitenleitwerk
412
5Czech (cs)
Svislá ocasní plocha
364
6Russian (ru)
Киль (авиация)
312
7French (fr)
Dérive (empennage)
289
8Ukrainian (uk)
Кіль (авіація)
197
9Spanish (es)
Estabilizador vertical
126
10Indonesian (id)
Penstabil membujur
118
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مثبت رأسي
azAzerbaijani
Şaquli stabilizator
caCatalan
Estabilitzador vertical
csCzech
Svislá ocasní plocha
daDanish
Halefinne (fly)
deGerman
Seitenleitwerk
enEnglish
Vertical stabilizer
esSpanish
Estabilizador vertical
fiFinnish
Sivuvakain
frFrench
Dérive (empennage)
huHungarian
Függőleges vezérsík
idIndonesian
Penstabil membujur
itItalian
Deriva (aeronautica)
jaJapanese
垂直尾翼
koKorean
수직 꼬리 날개
nlDutch
Kielvlak
ptPortuguese
Estabilizador vertical
ruRussian
Киль (авиация)
simpleSimple English
Vertical stabilizer
slSlovenian
Vertikalni stabilizator
srSerbian
Вертикални реп
trTurkish
Dikey stabilizatör
ukUkrainian
Кіль (авіація)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#42702
06.2009
Global:
#55676
06.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#13169
05.2005
Global:
#6469
09.2022

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Vertical stabilizer from Wikipedia articles about Japan Air Lines Flight 123, American Airlines Flight 587, Überlingen mid-air collision, Hans-Joachim Marseille and Empennage. Whereas reading the article about Vertical stabilizer people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Empennage, Twin tail, T-tail, American Airlines Flight 587 and Tailplane.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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