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| Dec 20, 2019 at 17:45 | comment | added | Camille Goudeseune | Strutless biplanes are rare, but here's one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier-Zeppelin_D.I Here's an even rarer strutless triplane (a prototype; the next version got struts added): fokker-history.com/en/de-v-serie#V-III | |
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| Nov 3, 2016 at 11:36 | vote | accept | Rugnir | ||
| Nov 1, 2016 at 19:14 | comment | added | jamesqf | A lot of the reason for biplanes (and triplanes) in early aircraft was strength. You could use struts between the wings and diagonal wires to produce a strong, rigid box structure from wood and fabric. I don't offhand know of any biplane that didn't have such bracing. (But I'm no expert.) | |
| Nov 1, 2016 at 18:25 | comment | added | Mark | @Rugnir, biplane wings don't add linearly. If a wing of a given area produces 1 unit of lift, then adding a second wing of the same area on top of it produces about another 0.5 unit of lift, for a total of 1.5. This is because of the aforementioned interference. | |
| Nov 1, 2016 at 16:07 | comment | added | Rugnir | Would a second delta wing add more area/drag? I would have thought that by adding a second wing it would increase the lift therefore allowing reducing the size of the wing such that these factors would cancel out | |
| Nov 1, 2016 at 15:52 | history | answered | fooot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |