ORIGINAL: bubbagates
Doh...I didn't think of halving the measurement <red-faced and embarassed> [:@].
My bad and I do sincerely apologize to everyone, especially "Planeclothes" since he took the time to do the measurements for me.
I agree with having to put the wing together then turn the plane over and bolt it to the plane. I thought cutting the belly pan in half, cutting holes into it for the wing bolts and gluing it to the wing halves but it's not all that bad so I'll wait on doing that until one day I get rained on trying to get the plane apart. Gotta admit that it does fly fairly well.
Umm unless I totally misunderstood you - you would still have to put the wing on as a one piece. There's just no getting around it - wing halves slide onto a tube to create what looks like a big 74" one piece wing - then it's bolted on. Having the bellypan split and glued to each wing half wouldn't help at all that I can see. I guess you could put on one half of the wing then slide the other half onto the tube - but it's pretty hard to do with the plane upright - but I have done it with the plane tilted onto the spinner on a table - works ok if you don't have the wheelpants on.
I love the plane to death, but in all honesty it's gonna be the last plane I ever buy this size with that arrangement. I have a 1.20 size wildhare edge coming in the morning with the "normal" setup and I hope it works out much better.