Duane you wrote:

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It could very well be that Ed took his back-up plane in the '62 Nats, and modified it to become the Taurus-2, (I can't believe he wouldn't have had a back-up plane, but there is no trace of it). I don't understand why there could be differences in the widths of the fuselages if there were originally two identical Taurus models, one of which was modified to be the T-2. Once a fuselage is built, it wouldn't be widened or narrowed which tells me the two plane's fuselages were built at different times....but we may never know unless a former friend of Eds comes on this forum and answers the questions for sure.
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I think that we do have a problem.
I never did tell you he had a backup plane at the nats, maybe he had, but he did not had it at the moments he went to Belgium. That is why he did use the orginal scratchbuild Taurus and the preproduction Taurus of the kit of the MAN magazine ( and mixed them).

The Taurus 2 (proportional version?)is of later date and not interesting for our situation and "cave" moment , the period Belgium with only normal Taurusses, the 17 of the championships.

If you and others are interested to go with me step-by step trough the information, pictures and film I can let you try prove yourself that I am right.
I go through each step and wait for feed back of each of you after the step, and then the follow step we will do.
Let me know if you want to go with me and we will try. Let me also know if you want to go with me to wait for your feedback.
I wait till tomorrow to start, if more of you want to. We need the film of Belgium visible, the pictures we need, I have!

So If you want? let me know!


Cees