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Aviation History
1918
1918 - 1344.PDF
\ NOVEMBER 1918 Fig. 58.— G en era J view of wreckage of four- engined giant. IK m Wing Construction. The spars are shown in Fig. 50, built up very elaborately in sections, and consisting of no less than seven sections of spruce, reinforced with multi-ply on each side, and finally carefully bound with doped fabric. The spars of the lower wings are continuous, that is to say, they run right across the centre section of the fuselage, to the longerons of which they are secured, contrary to the usual practice, in which special compression members, form- ing part of the fuselage construction, are employed. The wing surface, both upper and lower, is divided into three sections of which the middle section extends to the engine mountings on each side. The spars in this section are both at right angles to the axis of the fuselage. At each side of the middle section the leading edge of the wings is boldly swept back as well as tapered. The rear spars of the wings, together with those of the centre section, form a straight line from wing-tip to wing-tip, but the front spars are swept back. Fig. 59.—Rear end of fuselage andengined giant. tail-skid of four- - Fig. 60. Power plant of four-engined giant.I24C
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