...I mean... a triplane has three wings.... but I dunno... somebody put me straight on this one
2007-03-07 12:48:50 · 22 answers · asked by worm0mania 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Wings, in this context, means the main lifting surfaces in the yaw-plane, extending from starboard tip to port tip (or vice versa), seperated or not by the fuselage. The airplanes with one wing are called monoplanes, with two sets of wings (stacked with some vertical seperation) its the bi-plane, with three its the tri-plane and so on.
In all cases, they are "normal" airplanes! You might want to use the term "common airplane" if what you wanted to say was about monoplanes. Abnormal ones are the experimental ones, say F-16 XL as an example.
2007-03-07 15:22:10 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The designations "normal" or "regular" aren't used for aeroplanes in connection with their wing arrangements, whatever some of the other answers may think.
If you're asking this question the you may as well get it right.
Aeroplanes with one wing on each side are Monoplanes; two wings each side (one above the other) are Biplanes; three wings are Triplanes, etc.
However, I'm unaware of any successful aeroplane being built with more than three wings, vertically deployed, although there have been a few freaky one-offs.
Multi-winged aeroplanes have greatly increased 'lift' compared with monoplanes. That's why they were popular in the days of short, grass, runways with underpowered engines and relatively heavy construction materials. Also they're popular with aerobatic flyers because 'lift' aids their climb rate and manoeuvrability.
Their big disadvantage is increased 'drag' which adversely affects speed and fuel consumption. This doesn't much bother the aerobatic flyer.
There have been monoplanes built which effectively don't seem to have a fuselage. Probably the best known was the Northrop "flying wing" large bomber. It wasn't an idea that was copied on a large scale; probably because the additional complication and cost of maintenance outweighed the extra streamling of the design.
Nowadays the cost-benefit equation may be very different so we may see similar designs appearing.
2007-03-11 08:44:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
a triplane has 3 SETS of wings, a biplane has 2 SETS of wings and a regular airplane has 1 SET of wings
2007-03-07 12:53:46 · answer #3 · answered by ¿]]v[[ª®]{µ§? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A triplane has three sets of wings, a biplane has two and a monoplane has one set.
2007-03-07 13:10:36 · answer #4 · answered by maxinebootie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A biplane has 2 pairs of wings. A normal plane has 1 pair of wings.
2007-03-07 12:58:15 · answer #5 · answered by Rando 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A biplane has two wings, one over the other as you see in the very old planes,each wing is one piece not joined at either side of plane
2007-03-07 12:54:44 · answer #6 · answered by tuppenybitz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA CHOKE CHOKE nice one ,if you wanna look at it that way,a byplane has 3 wings and a triplane has 4 ,a Cessna 172,182 Monoplane has only 1 wing that is above the fuselage..Bet you wouldn't get into a plane if somebody told you it only has 1 wing.. Nice to see a little humour here...Steve..
2007-03-08 20:31:10 · answer #7 · answered by vlf126 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you for "normal" mean monoplane, yes it has one wing.
In Italian Ala(wing) means from the right tip to the left tip, and a monoplane has 1 wing and 2 semiali(half-wing, from the fuselage to each tip), I don't exaclty know if in english it's the same for these precise terms...
2007-03-07 13:35:58 · answer #8 · answered by sparviero 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's either the number of wings on each side or the number of wings that run the entire span of the plane.
A biplane has two sets of wings, one on top of the other.
2007-03-07 12:52:32 · answer #9 · answered by greenfan109 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An airplane with one wing is called a monoplane.
2007-03-08 13:50:24 · answer #10 · answered by pilot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋