multiplane
Aircraft fixed-wing configuration with more than three main wing surfaces
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Aircraft fixed-wing configuration with more than three main wing surfaces
1 identifiers linking multiplane across the web's reference databases
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In aviation, a multiplane is a fixed-wing aircraft-configuration featuring multiple wing planes. The wing planes may be stacked one above another, or one behind another, or both in combination. Types having a small number of planes have specific names and are not usually described as multiplanes:Biplane - two wings stacked one above the other Triplane - three wings stacked one above another Tandem wing - two main planes, one behind the other. The tandem triple or tandem triplet configuration has three lifting surfaces one behind another.