Gents,

A short message about the dihedral

I already did discover the wings in the crate have more dihedral than the later Top Flite Taurus.

Before covering the wing I have to adjust the right dihedral as I can measure from the crate picture.

On both wingtips, near the ailerons I did make labels with (cm) dashes (rules?).
By making a pictures and measure the distances on these pictures I can make a picture of the wings identical to the crate picture, so with the same point of view and distance than the old crate picture. I also still know the distance from leaser beaming and the thread method of the beginning, this was the same point .
The result.

Al the colored lines are identical in length.

Result is we can clearly see the dihedral of the wing of the crate is more. Compare the blue lines.
The orange lines do indicate the wanted dihedral and the way we look to the TE of the ailerons.
By reading the crossing of the orange line on my labels (see yellow dots) I simply can calculate the new dihedral.

Of course this method only works with the standard wing, but the mounting position of the wheel legs in the wing shows us this isn’t a wing set with straight TE!.
The wings are glued together with a view drops of glue so changing the dihedral and making again pictures is no problem. Continuing until the pictures are the same.
When this is finished I do have to check the main legs of the gear again

I do use three wing sets in the picture, the crate in the centre and both identical on both sides. It is better to see because our human eyes do not like al that diagonal lines. Now we have some balance and not only ARE the wing sets the same but also nearly LOOK the same.

When you do not believe, take a rule and measure on your screen the lengths of the three red horizontal distances, between the tips and centre of the outside wing sets: They are really the same!!

Second picture to show what is happening when we do not used that little balance, you maybe would not believe it, they have nearly the same dimensions.

Cees