11. This arrangement would reduce the bending moment at the wing roots , saving structural weight. 12. This causes an " unsweeping " of the iso-bars in the wing root region. 13. The aircraft were heavily built, with the skin at the wing roots over thick. 14. It joined to the fuselage around the wing roots with two pairs of struts. 15. Some witnesses later testified that there was fire emerging from the left wing root . 16. Two Shpitalnyi Sh-37 cannon were mounted in the wing roots with very prominent barrels. 17. Harris put holes in the enemy fighter's starboard wing root firing from long range. 18. Entry is through a forward sliding canopy that also includes the wing root fairng. 19. Both seats, placed in tandem, are forward of the wing root under a canopy. 20. The airfoil section was designed by Baynes and varied from the wing root outwards.
