Suspension System

A friend, his grandfather, and I, we are building a real-size replica of the Blériot XI, the first airplane to fly across the English Channel. We started the project around November last year (2010) and we are close to getting it done. It is not from a kit nor have we any accurate plans. We are building it from ground up, basing ourselves on the few blueprints we've managed to find and a couple of historic photos.

This is a close-up of the partly assembled suspension system, as devised by Louis Blériot.