The undercarriage was also new; each mainwheel was mounted on a hinged V-form strut from the lower fuselage longerons with a compression leg to the upper longeron.
42.
I looked up " spar " in the English-to-French side of the dictionary and it gave the French translation in an aeronautical context as " longeron ".
43.
When rigged as a monoplane, the Cheetah had a pair of parallel lift struts on each side from the lower fuselage longeron to the two wing spars not far outboard.
44.
A landing skid extending from the nose to below the wing trailing edge was retained by leather straps very close to the lower longeron, with landing forces absorbed by rubber blocks.
45.
The innermost pair connected the wing at about one-third span to the upper fuselage longeron and the outer pair ran from about two-thirds span to an undercarriage extension.
46.
Raidisseur �pousant le profil longitudinal d'une structure . " Rough translation : " Stiffener following the lengthwise profile of a structure . " So we are indeed talking about a longeron.
47.
The lower wings were attached to the lower fuselage longerons and the upper wings supported over the fuselage on each side by a linked pair of vertical cabane struts from the upper longeron.
48.
To minimise drag, there were no conventional cross bracing flying wires but instead a single, faired diagonal strut from the top of each interplane struts to the corresponding lower fuselage longeron.
49.
With a diameter of around 1.2 metres and a height of 1.35 metres, the satellite has a Deck-And-Longeron type structure, allowing easy assembly & disassembly.
50.
Each mainwheel was mounted on a group of three struts, two to the lower fuselage longeron at points on the wing leading edge and at mid-chord and the third to the upper longeron.
