Difficult to see in the picture, but what we've done here is put two plum bobs on the front of each wing, and then used a laser level to try to confirm that they're in a straight line. The laser beam hit all four strings, so we're good to go.
Here we are contemplating how we're going to do this business with the incidence - most of the work of this (as will be seen shortly) has to do with getting everything level.
Step one is to level the fuselage: here we've got it level from side to side . . .
. . . and here it is front to back. Notes about this below:
I'm sure that there are as many ways to level the fuselage as there are RVs out there, however, here's how we did it: adding or letting air out of the tires. We're in a situation though where (a) the garage floor isn't as level as it could have been, and (b) the tires are already on the plane. (It's worth pointing out that you should not try this method of alignment with only one wing on the plane, but hopefully you figured that out already.)
Oh yeah, also we had to use blocks of wood crammed under the nosewheel. In any case, this isn't as bad as you'd think it is - about the only complication is if you let enough air (or add enough) to the back tires in order to get the side-to-side alignment fixed, you have a pretty good chance of changing the front-to-back alignment.
Anyway, when it's your time to do this, good luck. Take your time, too.
For the 7/7A, a 3-inch block is placed on the back spar, and then the front of the level is placed on the front spar. The angle to this should match the fuselage angle, which it does.
Left wing is drilled - this is just with a 30 drill bit, and we'll enlarge it later.
FAA-type picture: me drilling the right one.
Starting to putter around with the wing fairings - these look like they're going to be a pain to get lined up perfectly. Gosh, I'll continue this fight some other time.
