Bay Biplane

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Wing Configuration - Wing Support
... Cantilever Strut braced Wire braced A braced multiplane may have one or more "bays", which are the compartments created by adding interplane struts the number of bays refers ... For example, the de Havilland Tiger Moth is a single-bay biplane where the Bristol F.2 Fighter is a two-bay biplane ... Single-bay biplane Two-bay biplane Non planar wing or closed wing - two wings in different planes are joined structurally at or near the tips in some way ...

Famous quotes containing the words biplane and/or bay:

    “This biplane is the shape of human flight.
    Its name might better be First Motor Kite.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)