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Bracing, both internal and external, was extensively used in early aircraft to support the lightweight airframes demanded by the low engine powers and slow flying speeds then available. From the first Wright flyer of 1903, the fuselage was no more than a braced framework and even fore-aft diagonal bracing was used to hold the wings at right ...
To assume a brace position or crash position is an instruction that can be given to prepare for a crash, such as on an aircraft; the instruction to "Brace for impact!" or "Brace! Brace!" is often given if the aircraft must make an emergency landing on land or water. There are many different ways to adopt the brace position, with many countries ...
Small shoulder-wing aircraft may use forward sweep to maintain a correct CoG. Some types of variable geometry vary the wing sweep during flight: Swing-wing: also called "variable sweep wing". The left and right hand wings vary their sweep together, usually backwards. Seen in a few types of military aircraft, such as the General Dynamics F-111 ...
Diagram of the Wright brothers' 1899 kite, showing wing bracing and strings attached to hand-held sticks used for warping the wing while in flight. The Wright brothers' first powered aircraft, which utilized warping wings. Wing warping was an early system for lateral (roll
Bracing struts and wires of many kinds were extensively used in early aircraft to stiffen and strengthen, and sometimes even to form, the main functional airframe. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s they fell out of use in favour of the low drag cantilever construction. Most aircraft bracing struts are principally loaded in compression, with wires ...
Data from War Planes of the First World War: Volume Three Fighters General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 18 ft 9 in (5.72 m) Wingspan: 28 ft 10 in (8.79 m) Height: 10 ft 2 in (3.10 m) Wing area: 160 sq ft (15 m 2) Empty weight: 889 lb (403 kg) Gross weight: 1,420 lb (644 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Le Rhône 9J nine-cylinder rotary engine, 110 hp (82 kW) Performance Maximum speed: 113.5 mph (182.7 ...
Wellington Mk.X HE239 of No.428 Sqn. RCAF, illustrating the geodetic construction and the level of battle damage it could sustain and still return to base. The earliest-known use of a geodetic airframe design for any aircraft was for the pre-World War I Schütte-Lanz SL1 rigid airship's envelope structure] of 1911, with the airship capable of up to a 38.3 km/h (23.8 mph) top airspeed.
The aircraft superficially resembled the Blériot XI in terms of overall configuration but was in almost every design detail different from this aircraft. Like the Blériot, control was effected using wing-warping via wires attached to king posts. However the Macfie monoplane incorporated many innovative features and in particular was designed ...