OK, I see repeated mention of balancing the wing and fuse separately.

I have always balanced GC and lateral with the wing attached to the fuse. My thought on this is that you don't fly the fuse without the wing and you don't fly the wing without the fuse, so they should be balanced together, as a unit.

Also, wouldn't this give a truer flight balance doing it as a unit? If the wing is not perfectly centered on the fuse, the lateral balance would be off if they were balanced separately, yes?

Anyway, I've got to balance a new one for my grandson tomorrow, and if I've been doing it wrong all these years, I need to straighten-up!

Let me know!