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Torsion of wing trusses at diving speeds (1921)

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tions is too small to be considered for practical design wherever there is adequate stagger bracing, being larger at the center section of this particular machine7 where the ahgnment is maintained only by the external drag and antidrag wires, and being quite great in the overhang where there is no… … sequently the warp of the wings would be reduced. In particular, the initial tensions in the stagger wires are nearly always great enough to keep both wires tight under all conditions; and the warp of the wings inside the outermost panel point are thereby reduced approximately 30 per cent. It must…

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