Aviation, theorico-pracitcal text-book for students (1919)
Carmina, Benjamin Morreale, 1871- [from old catalog] · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 63
47 AEROPLANE CONSTRUCTION the interplane struts A (Fig. 31a), which hold the wings apart; the landing wires B; the flying wires C; the stagger and incidence wires D (Fig. 316), which brace the wings one … Fig. 31 with the other; and the drift wires E, which run from the nose plate to the wings. Such a box girder bracing makes the biplane very strong in construction, but it detracts from its lift, increasing the passive drift and causing interference in the gap. For parity of surface, the lift of the…
Aeronautics
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