The ARF comes with wood struts. They are oval shaped, not airfoil shaped, which is fine. In the very sparse instructions, they show a really hair brained idea about how to install the struts! I looked this over, installed some of the parts into the fuselage and the more I looked at how they were showing to do it, the more I was convinced I would do it a far simpler and stronger way. I cut a saw kerf in th ends of the struts after determining how long they should be, made up some aluminum strut ends, fitted these into the saw kerfs. Drilled holes through the aluminum parts, where they would be buried in the struts and epoxied the aluminum parts into the struts. The holes become filled with the epoxy and effectively nail the aluminum strut ends to the struts. The strut ends were bent to fit flat against both the bottom of the fuselage and the bottom of the wing. I have simply used screws to hold the struts on and will atleast replace the screw in the wing with a blind nut and bolt. The screw in the fuselage is completely buried in wood so I think I'll be good there. Simple and strong.