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"ref": "2003, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, page 257",
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"text": "In an aeroplane having superposed aerofoils each provided with a leading edge bar, a trailing edge bar, a central wing bar designed to resist greater lift than drift stresses and positioned approximately at the most forward center of pressure, a rear wing bar designed to resist greater drift than lift stresses and compression ribs connecting said ribs, diagonal wires to truss drift stresses connecting the leading ege bar with the rear wing bars of each aerofoil, a single row of struts directly connected at their ends to and holding the central wing bars in spaced relation, and brace members having a common connection with the central portion.",
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},
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},
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"text": "The difference between the angles of the upper approach slope and lower approach slope can never be less than the angular depth of the transition sector of the middle wing bar.",
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