Gents,
I do fly my Taurus for a long time now, as Taurus Flyer for many years.
An early opinion of me was, it did look more like a cargo lifter than an original pattern plane. After the radio was installed there still was plenty of room left to built in all kind of equipment. See picture to archive (before all is installed definitively).

And were these radio’s in the past so big? No relayless receivers weren’t, with their semiconductor amplifiers in the servos, no, not all as big. Only for the man in the street there was so much room needed sometimes.

After I did have the crate picture and reconstruct my Oldest Taurus on Earth it was clear to me, the Frank Myers and later Top Flite Taurus was the commercialized wide body Taurus of the Oldest Taurus on Earth, first pattern Taurus of Ed Kazmirski.

Remember, Propellerheads, History repeating, 1960.

I did write in post 745, Summertime is the period for me to fly the Top Flite Taurus Cargo Lifter and bring the plane to a higher technical level. Tomorrow the check out of the engine temperature measurement, part of the electronics on the picture.
Calibrated with hot boiling water, hot junction and ice, cold junction of the thermocouple.

Cees