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Airplane with 2 wings stacked on top of each other.

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Advantages of an inverted sesquiplane?

A biplane whose lower wing is significantly shorter in span than the upper is sometimes called a sesquiplane, from sesqui "one and a half." …
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What is this strut in biplane rigging, attached only to wires, not bearing any load?

A few biplanes like the Stearman have a strut parallel to the fuselage, halfway along the rigging's landing wires and flying wires, not fastened to the airframe, not bearing any obvious load. One on …
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Any biplane flying wings after 1914?

Were any biplane flying wings built and flown after the 1912-1914 variants of the Dunne D.8? If not, why? …
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