LANDING WIRES - Interplane bracing wires that help support wingloads when the plane is on the ground. Direction of travel is downward and outward from the fuselage. Opposite of FLYING WIRES.
LANDING WIRES - External bracing wires, usually of streamline section, which support the wings when the aircraft is on the ground.
LANDPLANE - A heavier-than-air craft which is equipped to operate from land surfaces only.
When a machine is already assembled, the first thing to do is to loosen all wires except the landing wires.
After the flying wires have been checked over, the landing wires which are the single cables should be inspected.
Wires or cables, usually running from the top of the top centre-section plane to the outer wing struts of a biplane, designed to resist forces opposite to the normal direction of lift. They are sometimes called 'landing wires' because they help ...
usually has one, or perhaps two, supporting wires or struts attached to each wing and the fuselage. The externally braced wing is typical of the biplane (two wings placed one above the other) with its struts and flying and landing wires (see figure ...
the term "flying wires" addresses those wires which take up the flight loads during positive "G" flight. In a bi-plane those go from the bottom of the fuselage to the top of the interplane strut. The wires going the other direction are landing wires.
 See also: Bracing, Direct, Chine, Ailerons, Airplane
  
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