LIFT WIRES - Interplane bracing wires that help support wingloads when the plane is in flight. Direction of travel is upward from the bottom of the fuselage to the top of the interplane struts.
Lift Wires: Wires or cables the principal function of which is to transfer the lift of non-cantilever wings to the main structure.
Light Aeroplane: An aeroplane having a total all-up weight of less than 1,200lb.
FLYING WIRES (LIFT WIRES) - External bracing wires, usually of streamline section, which carry the weight of the fuselage in flight.
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 See also: Plane, Force, Wing, Pilot, Section
  
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