From hrose-saa@ckdhr.com Wed May 16 17:45:12 1901 Path: bounce-back Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Date: 16 May 2001 17:45:12 From: "John McLaren" Subject: Re: High wing vs. low wing References: Message-ID: Approved: hrose-saa@ckdhr.com@ditka.Chicago.COM Sender: hrose-saa@ckdhr.com@ditka.Chicago.COM X-Trace: /wq5/f55pLhJjRzV8Q6wqbnb08CDT6MZNjYfIo787jj5H2AJlhfZXmiCWnTVuJNbEV1evIqGylhC!P6LQSVM50S1G3zuc1y7jH4UG5Zvmo+9wjLOHvE43WCMJg49fXoqwthWjouTZGLVpGLyWt/aT/Ou5!tuPKeEA= X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 This is just a guess since I am not a structures person. I wonder it there is a weight savings to the low wing airplane. By attaching the main landing gear to the wing, the wing to body joint carries the load of the airplane on the ground or in flight. With a high wing plane there has to be structure to transfer the wing to fuselage load in flight and a second set of structural members to carry the landing gear to fuselage load on the ground (if the gear attaches to the body line on a C-5. On airpanes like a Dash-8 where the gear still attaches to the wing, the high wing may not matter.