cabane

cabane

[kə′ban]

(aerospace engineering)

The arrangement of struts used on early types of airplanes to brace the wings.

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cabane

An arrangement of struts or other supporting structures to support loads above the fuselage and wings. This arrangement once was used extensively in biplanes and earlier monoplanes.

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