Gents.

In “The Champ chats”, in RCM&E of October 1962 Ed did start with: “The “Taurus” has been under development for several years. One of the results of “under development” is still visible on the photograph of the crate, the first successful Taurus on the right side, valuable for Ed and for us also to visualize the design steps in history. That was why I did redesign and reconstruct that Taurus.

I also did show the calculated Point of View, (POV) the original location of the camera, of which the first picture of the Flop, visible standing on the ground, was taken. see post 840 of this page:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_79...4/key_/tm.htm#

I didn’t show a combined picture yet with the use of this picture, so here it is.
Comparing the reconstructed Oldest (successful) Taurus and the Flop in one combined picture, most side view.
The planes are equal scaled and we see the nose of the Flop is still some longer than of the Taurus. Much better visible, the tail cones. The tail cone of the Taurus already is longer than of the Flop. Later we see the plans of Ed and Frank Myers of the prototype of the first commercial Taurus and on these the tail cone again is longer. As often noted, to dampen the effect of the reeds radio!!

Some more details, Flop has barn door ailerons, less tapered wings (we have to take in account with nose length!) and the Taurus of course the strip ailerons. Also visible the thrust line of the Taurus, much lower than the Flop.

It isn’t strange we see Ed did use the first successful Taurus to design the Simla by multiplying the dimensions with 150 % because. There was written the “Taurus” has been under development for several years (Cham chats) and so the first successful Taurus was much more valuable than people think and a serious result of a lot of development.
It was also, already in 1961, by coincidence very well dimensioned to use with proportional radio with his too short tail cone for the reeds!!!
How do I know that? I do fly that first Oldest (successful) Taurus with proportional radio, no not “computer”, so no mixers, no expo or dual rate. Just the way Ed did fly the Simla too.

As a reminder picture 2, that same fuselage of the Taurus in the first picture compared with the fusleage of the first successful Taurus in the crate.

More to come,
Cees