The flying wires of an aircraft work in conjunction with other wing components such as spars and interplane struts to transmit flight loads.

This caused some delays as half-built wing components had to be strengthened for the expected higher combat load requirements.

During this time, few wing components were actually manned.

The Filton plant, which makes and assembles wing components, employs 6,500 people, of which 1,500 will be taken over by GKN.

Few wing components were manned until October when Little Rock was ready for operational use.

Today Carlson Aircraft produces wings, wing components and fuel tanks.

The wing components were redesigned and the engines replaced.

But they recently realized that some parts that they had laid out on the left wing area on the hangar floor were actually right wing components.

This difficulty was partly solved by reducing the stiffness of some wing components.

Immediately after this, however, Davis aircraft was itself stuck by machine-gun fire from another aircraft, damaging the propeller and left wing components.