If a ``side bracing wire,'' then it should be
stated whether right- or left-hand.
Wire, Internal Bracing--A bracing wire (usually drift or anti-drift)
within a surface.
Wire, Top Bracing--A bracing wire, approximately horizontal and
situated between the top longerons of fuselate, between top tail
booms, or at the top of similar construction.
Wire, Bottom Bracing--Ditto, substituting ``bottom'' for ``top.''
Wire, Side Bracing--A bracing wire crossing diagonally a side bay
of fuselage, tail boom bay, undercarriage side bay or centre-section
side bay. This term is not usually used with reference to incidence
wires, although they cross diagonally the side bays of the
cell. It should be stated whether right- or left-hand.
Wire, Cross Bracing--A bracing wire, the position of which is diagonal
from right to left when viewing it from the front of an aeroplane.
Wire, Control Bracing--A wire preventing distortion of a controlling
surface.
Wire, Control--A wire connecting a controlling surface with the pilot's
control lever, wheel, or rudder-bar.
Wire, Aileron Gap--A wire connecting top and bottom ailerons.
Wire, Aileron Balance--A wire connecting the right- and left-hand top
ailerons. Sometimes termed the ``aileron compensating wire.''
Wire, Snaking--A wire, usually of soft metal, wound spirally or tied
round another wire, and attached at each end to the framework.
Used to prevent the wire round which it is ``snaked'' from becoming,
in the event of its displacement, entangled with the
propeller.
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