Biplane Airplane Postcard

Classic vintage style airplane graphic - Biplane - makes great gifts for student pilots, flight instructors, private pilots, air craft owners and all who love aviation. Pilot, Plane & Aviation Lovers Gifts & Shirts. 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 biwing is also occasionally used in biology, to describe the wings of some flying animals.