Talk:Rib (aeronautics)

Thread ribs
Goodyear introduced thread ribs for wing construction. As inflated wings find more uses, the thread rib will play a larger role. A section can be developed to show readers about this important kind of aircraft rib. Thread can be controlled in some advanced wings so that the airfoil can be altered during flight; programmed particular threads may retract or extend depending on the flight needs.

Textile ribs for wings
The Jalbert parafoil invention used textile ribs; textile ribs have since made possible toy to commercial huge textile ribs for wings. This section can be developed with citations. When the textile rib has breathing holes in it, then the air can communicate with other wing cells. But textile ribs that meant for hard inflation without communication have purposes.

Wood ribs for wings
Before double-surfaced airfoils, wood ribs embedded in the single-surface wing has a history and remaining importance. Double-surfaced wings have a few different kinds of wood ribs; ribs in upper surface only, ribs in both upper and lower surface, and ribs that are fully webbed with an upper contact with the upper surface of the wing and with a lower contact with the lower surface of the thick wing.

Inflated and airbeam ribs
Ribs made of encased hard-inflated air bladders are formed to force airfoil shapes. Inflation pressure can be alterned in advance designs in order to gain flight assets. Tensairty is also a means of having inflated ribs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joefaust (talk • contribs) 19:48, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

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Citations Needed
I added the request for more citations on the front page.

This edit in June 2008 seems to have added the information.

This article on aerostudents.com has metadata stating it was published in April 2008, however, the accuracy of this claim is not clear.

If anyone has more reliable sources on types of wing ribs and could provide sources (or, update the article itself), this would be helpful.

Modelmat (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 09:18, 27 May 2021 (UTC)