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Triplane
Aircraft wing configuration with three vertically stacked main wing surfaces / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For aircraft having three lifting surfaces in tandem, see Three-surface aircraft.
For the Japanese rock band, see Triplane (band).
A triplane is a fixed-wing aircraft equipped with three vertically stacked wing planes. Tailplanes and canard foreplanes are not normally included in this count, although they occasionally are.[citation needed]
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