Some photos I took from the Military Aviation Museum's Biplanes and Triplanes event

[kscessnadriver]

Dragon Rapide, one of the best looking airplanes ever built. I'd love to fly one someday.

[Eric Witherspoon]

So in most all of the biplane photos, I can see the flying/landing wires between the wings.

But in the triplane photos, I can't see wires between the cabanes & interplane struts. As though it's 3 sets of cantilever wings stacked. Then your photo 564 confirms - no wires! Is that for real? Anyone know that the triplanes don't have wires?

[champ driver]

Eric, the Fokker Triplanes were designed as cantilever wings with box spars, without any interplane struts, just the 2 wires inbetween the center section struts. The story that I've always read is that it's the pilots who wanted interplane struts installed after the prototype was built. Of course with cantlever wings there's no need for flying and landing wires.