Hi Barry, @Get_Barried
So I have learned a lot with the help of Darren @1318980 since I was last here but now I am working on this whole plane project again. I have refined the CAD model a little as you suggested and I have taken the plunge and started using Hex Dominant Parametric methods with some success, vs Hex Dominant Auto.
I am still having an issue inflating the layers.
For some reason this elliptical leading edge sweep seems to be much harder that the linear multi-taper leading edge sweep of my simpler public wing project , which I think I got a decent layered mesh of, that only has a couple deflation’s. I can not get any where near that success using the same techniques.
Any chance you can have a look at the project and suggest a different approach?
I looked at all of these at y=-60 (~1/2 span) on the rear wing to get a 1st off view of layering quality
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Mesh 1 : NOT layered test of basic geometry meshing
Quality : Good -
Mesh 2 : ABS (not relative) layered mesh with 3 layer, 0.3m reference length and a sum of layers thickness of 0.105 inches
Quality : Decent, here is clip and yPlus map. The problem with this yPlus map is obviously on the Fuselage, that is why I am trying to layer with 1/2 fuselage length (2.5m) as the reference in Mesh 3 and Mesh 4 (those red values here go up to 1044!!!):
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Mesh 3 : ABS Layered mesh with 4 layers, 2.5m reference length and a sum of layers thickness of 0.0207 inches. The large cells on upper and lower surface were refined at Level 6
Quality: Worst, virtually no inflation
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Mesh 4 : ABS Layered mesh with 4 layers, 2.5m reference length and a sum of layers thickness of 0.0207 inches. The large cells on upper and lower surface were refined at Level 4
Quality: Better but just layered on leading and trailing edges:
Here are the Mesh 3 and 4 inflation calcs:
yPlus 1st layer here is from online calculator:
Why would Mesh 4 with its coarser mesh have better layering than Mesh 3?
I am putting your @'s here to get you to come back and look at the mesh summary I just added 
@Get_Barried and @1318980
Thanks,
Dale