Patent ID: 8327543

Claim:
A method for mounting a wing of an aircraft to a fuselage of the aircraft, the method comprising: attaching a first measuring device to the fuselage; arranging a first positioning device at a defined position relative to the first measuring device; transferring a position mark located at the fuselage at a first target z-position of a first wing mounting point to the first positioning device, resulting in a position mark in the first positioning device; attaching the first positioning device to the wing, such that the position of the position mark corresponds to a position of the first wing mounting point; moving the wing towards the fuselage; determining a first difference between a first actual z-position of the first wing mounting point of the wing and the first target z-position of the first wing mounting point; wherein the determination of the first difference is performed on the basis of the first measurement device attached to the fuselage and the first positioning device attached to the wing.