Hello Evan,

We already have seen the fuselage of auction 2 is less high, and is also scratch built.

Blue lines are the references.
I did mark the difference with closed red squares front side!
Backside with open red squares!

Ed did try to reduce the air resistance as much as possible so designed the fuselage "around" the old reeds radio equipment the way I do design gliders at this moment
To check if the components will fit in the fuselage I often do make rings of massive copper wire so copy the cross section for the most critical positions


See the picture, you see the height of the backside behind the wing is less than the frontside, because of the battery beneith the fuel tank in the front!

On most picture we see a double bottom line, tank compartiment and backside fuselage. You see the reason why!

So, Evan:
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The reason for the cut out in the T2 wing is because it is much thicker than a standard wing. That is why the fuselage looks thinner. It is not, of course, but the wing simply sits higher in there.
Evan.
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Is not true!

The reason Ed did reduce the backside of the fuse as much as possible is maybe also because of the more level surface (less turbulences) of the bottom side during inverted flight.
I did noticed this before when explaining the Orion as a Tricycler!
(and would come back on this later, so!)


Cees