The design was also streamlined to reduce drag and round cross-section wing struts were replaced with aerodynamic extrusions.
He was intent on the landing and did not see this father snapping pictures of him one-handed while holding onto the wing strut with the other.
I grabbed the wing strut and put a foot on a small step below the door.
Towers also was wrenched from his seat but managed to catch a wing strut and stay with the plane until it crashed into the Chesapeake.
It was a high wing strut braced monoplane with its passenger cabin under the wing.
With a wing strut damaged, it was shipped back to New York.
Gasoline was gravity-fed into the crankcase through a rubber tube from the fuel tank mounted on a wing strut.
She clutched the wing strut and turned forward; from his window he was watching her intently.
The wings are constructed using a "D" cell, with stamped ribs and a single wing strut.
The main wing struts are V-shaped and attached to the lower fuselage, assisted by some secondary bracing.