RTFM Aircraft ~ Home of the Tiny Cedar Flea

Most Fleas have a clutter of struts to keep the front wing in place.  This is both messay, unsightly and very draggy.  It’s only benefits are that it is light, and very secure.  Here is a typical example – of a Croses design.

Interestingly. Emile Croses then went on to design a far cleaner looking airplane.
So much neater.  This is how I’ll do things on the Tiny Cedar Flea.  So the question then becomes, how does one build these struts?

And the answer is simple:  build them the way one would build the wing spars.  A box spar built from Paulownia, with a balsa airfoil shape around it, and glassed.  It will be super-rigid, very strong and look beautiful – certainly in keeping with the rest of the Cedar strip construction.

These two pillars are then bonded directly to the firewall.