The next step is to cut the holes for
the landing wires. This is another step that must be
carefully thought out before you perform the actual operation because if
you make a
mistake, you will have a big repair job ahead of you.
Landing wires hold the wings up during
landing, while sitting on the ground and when pulling negative G's.
flying wires go from the bottom longeron to the top wing and are used to
hold the wings down when flying and doing positive G's. This is one
reason that biplanes are able to pull the high G's with only small wooden
spars. The combination of the Landing Wires and the Flying Wires
along with the struts create a box section truss with the wires being the
triangular components.
