RE: The answer is......
There you go...And then there's 'cabane', 'nother French word (they designed the aeroplane, you know) which was a pyramidal structure built above the wing of a monoplane to which that wing was braced...in other words, biplanes (which have struts, both wing and centre section) don't have cabanes, don't need them...but I notice that most American biplanes seem to have them...
Evan, WB #12.