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Also known as triplane configuration

thumb|Sopwith Triplane in flight (2014) 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.

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  • Design principles
  • History
  • Pioneer years
  • Fighter triplanes
  • Zeppelin killers
  • Bombers, transports and patrol
  • The racing triplanes
  • Private aviation
  • Tandem triplanes
  • See also
  • References
  • Notes
  • Bibliography

thumb|Sopwith Triplane in flight (2014) 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.

==Design principles== 211px|right|thumb|Front view of a triplane The triplane arrangement may be compared with the biplane in a number of ways.

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