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Vulture 1 sprouts wings and a tail
Lots of lovely construction snaps for your viewing pleasure
Reaching once again for the brandy bottle, we braced ourselves for fixing the wings to the fuselage. Here's the latter prepared for the big moment:
The wing sits like this, supported by a styrofoam block to ensure the correct dihedral:
...and here it is glued in, with the spars indicated:
We slapped in some extra uprights (indicated) under each spar to absorb the downward force created by the wings in flight: