During World War II, a select group of young women pilots became
pioneers, heroes, and role models...They were the Women Airforce
Service Pilots, WASP, the first women in history trained to fly
American military aircraft.
Interplane bracing wires that help support wingloads when the
plane is in flight. Direction of travel is upward and outward from
the fuselage to the interplane struts. Also known as lift wires,
and the opposite of landing wires.