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Title: Wing alignment.
Post by: Perry Rose on June 18, 2025, 11:32:44 AM

What is the favored technique for aligning a wing into a full fuselage? Profile planes are simple, straight leading edges again simple. This one has a tapered leading edge straight trailing edge. J.D. Falcon.

Title: Re: Wing alignment.
Post by: Ken Culbertson on June 18, 2025, 02:11:35 PM

Quote from: Perry Rose on Yesterday at 11:32:44 AM

What is the favored technique for aligning a wing into a full fuselage? Profile planes are simple, straight leading edges again simple. This one has a tapered leading edge straight trailing edge. J.D. Falcon.

What has worked for me is to mark a true centerline on the fuselage using pins and thread.  To get the horizontal alignment I measure points on the wing equal distances from the center then measure the pin to tail and pin to nose distances until they are equal.

Ken

Title: Re: Wing alignment.
Post by: Perry Rose on June 18, 2025, 04:05:03 PM

Thanks Ken.

Title: Re: Wing alignment.
Post by: Tim Wescott on June 19, 2025, 07:32:53 AM

Ken's method works for me.  It's just basic geometry.