Credit: Manfred Munch, CC-BY-SA 3.0 The key goal of using a truss-braced wing is to enable an airliner to use a wing much thinner and narrower than usual.

The effort to lift the 700 ft - 5.1 million pound steel truss into place is expected resume at 7:30 a.m., Wednesday. Revised Wednesday Schedule: 7:30 a.m. - Resume lift ...

Steve Underwood, project manager with joint venture MTI, is orchestrating the span-by-span lift and assembly sequence for superstructure erection on the $1.2-billion widening of the Huey P. Long ...