Thanks for the pilot suggestion and the comments on my plane.

I have agonized long and hard about the bracing wire approach. Ideally I would usewire attached at the ends with turn buckles but that really isn't to scale either. Turn buckles weren't invented for another two years!!!

The original (and the full scale) used a modified form of a bicycle spoke setup. (Pictures below). I designed a similar version for the model but that required using sections of 2-56 hex standoffs. It would have been closer to the original but not exactly and it would have been a much heavier method.

Although using modern parts, what I've done is actually close to the method originally used. The only other alternative is to what Ihave done is to go super original. That will require making threaded rods with bent ends and custom spoke adjusters with custom brackets.

I actually had the brackets made when I committed the order to waterjet cut the metal work. So Ihave about 200 brackets that can be bent and then rivited to the wing bracket tabs. The difficulty is making the adjuster and the "spoke rod" for lack of a better term. That would have taken considerably more time that I already put into this. I was hoping with this model, like the full scale, to have it ready for the May 29, 2010 100th anniversary of the flight of the original. Even with this short cut, Ididn't make that.

I might consider re-rigging the plane with more a more original approach over the winter if I can come up with a practical method that isn't too heavy. I'm open to ideas.