Thank you Evan, good to hear that! So the ribs weren't even drawn on the kit plan, I didn't get that so far. If I get it correctly now, the fuselage is 1/2" higher on the Myers plan, so the RCM&E plan shows already the lower fuselage but still the shorter tail; only the MAN plan shows both lower fuselage and longer tail, as well as longer nose.

In fact, the 1962 Nats fuse seems to be even longer, all my picture measurements show that. Despite all inaccuracy and uncertainty of these measurements, it seems rather unlikely that the real fuse is like the MAN fuse. Can't wait for the measurements on the real model, I mean I really can't wait!

So it's not only fun, for me it's necessity to measure in the pictures. The experiment of building two models and photograph them in a crate I have to leave to Cees.

BTW, maybe Ed just experimented with the dihedral so the wingspan eventually lost an inch.