Wingwalkers in the Rain
photo by Stuart Robertson Reynolds5 158
Team Guinot flying Boeing Stearman biplanes, which can reach speeds of 150mph. Unfortunately for the girls on the wings, a heavy shower of rain started just as they appeared.
Wikipedia Article
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two superimposed main wings. The Wright brothers' Wright Flyer used a biplane design, as did most aircraft in the early years of aviation. While a biplane wing structure has a structural advantage, it produces more drag than a similar monoplane wing. Improved structural techniques and materials and the quest for greater speed made the biplane configuration obsolete for most purposes by the late 1930s.
The term is also occasionally used in biology, to describe the wings of some flying animals.
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