Oh man...you don't want to get on that subject[X(]

I don't know if Cees would agree, but technically this is the oldest Taurus, but this plane is a very early version, and is more of a hybrid between the Orion and Taurus. The Taurus development period took several years...this plane was an early Taurus, (at least Ed CALLED IT A TAURUS), but the sucessful Taurus concept wasn't there. Ed didn't like the way it flew, and one report at least said it crashed at the 1961 NATS.

The sticky part of the arguement comes when you go to describe what actually was the oldest REAL Taurus, (one that you would recognize as a Taurus with the short nose moment and long tail moment. For a study of that topic, pop some popcorn and start reading the Ed Kazmirski's Taurus thread.

Duane