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Offline Perry Rose

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Wing alignment.
« 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.
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Online Ken Culbertson

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Re: Wing alignment.
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 02:11:35 PM »
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.

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Offline Perry Rose

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Re: Wing alignment.
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 04:05:03 PM »
Thanks Ken.
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Offline Tim Wescott

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Re: Wing alignment.
« Reply #3 on: Today at 07:32:53 AM »
Ken's method works for me.  It's just basic geometry.
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