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But he explained to MacCracken that he had been flying Army salvage aircraft with "rotting longerons, rusting wires and fittings, badly torn fabric, etc."
From Time Magazine Archive
Wire, Top Bracing—A bracing wire, approximately horizontal and situated between the top longerons of fuselate, between top tail booms, or at the top of similar construction.
From The Aeroplane Speaks by Barber, H. (Horatio)
The car consists of four longerons with struts vertical and cross, and stiffened with vertical and cross bracing wires.
From British Airships, Past, Present, and Future by Whale, George
All four longerons were broken, the wings crumpled, the motor mount was twisted, the prop bent, the tail crushed, and the ship looked like it had spun in from at least ten thousand feet.
From Test Pilot by Collins, Jimmy
Wire, Top Bracing—A bracing wire, approximately horizontal and situated between the top longerons of fuselage, between top tail booms, or at the top of similar construction.
From The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition by Barber, H. (Horatio)
