ORIGINAL: pimmnz

I am not as certain as Duane is about the wing chord differences either, it looks to me that the narrower chord is correct, simply because the ribs all fit the 11 7/16" dimension, and it seems to me that the ribs on the Myers plan were traced from a set of templates, quite possibly the templates Ed used to cut his ribs from. The Myers fuselage is a full 1/2" taller than the Top Flite plan at the wing centre section trailing edge, it seems that Eds' mods to the second model (MAN COVER-my edit) were more extensive than he admits... measuring the distance from the top spar position to the leading edge at W1 from the rib shows that the wing plan L/E is too far forward, and that if you correct that point, then the chord matches both the drawn rib and the side view. Based on that, and that the wing then matches the TF wing, I would suggest that Mr. Myers did get the wing plan wrong, and that the chord of the original wing should be 11 7/16", not 12" as drawn.

.... There was 19 Taurus at the '62 Nats, so it is possible that the will be someone who remembers. The other thing to remember is that if you build the wing AS DRAWN, you will still end up with the narrower chord, and it will fit the fuselage without any modification, because you don't have a leading edge in the usual manner and simply wrap it with balsa....
Evan.