Plane: How to attach engines and air intakes to wings

[Marshall4]

Trying to build my first plane. I've got Mk1 cockpit and liquid fuel fuselage. I can attach wings Type C or Swept Wings. I can put a J-20 Juno basic jet engine on the back. How can I attach an air intake? I only have a Small Circular Intake. There are no attachment points on the wings or fuselage. Only way I can figure out is to use a Modular Girder Segment on the wing and attach the air intake to that. Pretty ugly and heavy. I see a lot of pictures of things stuck on wings, but when I move it all over the wing it never wants to stick. I've tried turning off the angle snap but doesn't make any difference.

[Fluburtur]

I usually use the alt+f12 menu to put on noclip in editor and put the small structural cube on the back of the wing, make sure it is aligned and the put the tank, the engine and the intake. May be considered cheating but it works.

[Van Disaster]

Surface attach a structural fuselage piece, stick the intake on one end & the engine on the other.

[Ben the ever Curious]

How do you surface attach a structural fuselage piece?

[bewing]

This is a rather old thread, and that info is somewhat out of date. It works with fuel tanks now, too. You just grab a fuel tank or structural fuselage part in the editor and hold it next to the wing -- when it turns green, it'll stick right where it is. Generally, you want to turn on 2x symmetry so that everything is attached in balance.

[Ben the ever Curious]

Thanks!  That did the trick, I ended up using some of the small fuel tanks.  Is there anything special to link a wing fuel tank to a main body fuel tank?

[bewing]

7 minutes ago, Ben the ever Curious said:

Is there anything special to link a wing fuel tank to a main body fuel tank?

No, they are automatically all linked, except for a few rare circumstances where you may need to add Fuel Ducts.