Ray


Ray, when Ed went to Belgium, there where 17 other Tauruses, no of them with a straight TE

Ed’s B version was the fuselage of his Taurus from the nats and the wings of the preproduction Taurus of the MAN Magazin.
When he fitted his original fuselage with a sheeted stab, he did paint the stab in the original color scheme, because the wing has also these original curved lines. He also did make a sticker on it (B version).
This is the reason why the second Taurus has a sheeted stab and a the old original color scheme

I think we will see soon/once see a picture of that combination!!

The next modification can be the straightened TE , with modern scheme.
Because of the experimental character Ed did not spend much time to copy the original color scheme anymore with the curved lines on the wings.
This is the picture we already have seen Ed sitting near his Taurus, message 107.
It’s a pity that we cannot see the tail and color scheme of this (pictures please),
The lowered thustline of the motor let me think this is the fuselage of the B version.

Other Taurus flyers did follow the master and sheeted there stabs (and fins) and straightened there TE of there Taurus. So all these variants you will see in many pictures.

Last experiment of Ed on the B version you see auctioned last night.
The swept back wing and extra fins to go to the Sim-la

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