What's a whiffletree?

Nick Allen · Post by **Nick Allen** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:45 pm

Page 46 of this month's mag (another excellent read, Brian) refers to whiffletrees...so what are these then!?

Brian Hope · Post by **Brian Hope** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:11 pm

Hi Nick, I am sure one of the engineers can give a much better description than I, but my understanding is that a whiffletree is a structure (usually of tubes) that allows loads to be applied to parts of an airframe to assess its strength.

Rod1 · Post by **Rod1** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:46 pm

The power of the web;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiffletree

Rod1