Gentlemen,

But also Ray, thanks for you last message, I will think it over!

For several years there was a thread on RCUniverse "Top Flite Taurus".
That was the right name and for me the start of my Taurus activities.

Now we have our thread "Ed Kazmirski's Taurus", so I think I have freedom to try to recontruct the way, I think, Ed Kazmirski did.
I also think this is the moment. There will not be a second change and I have to go further with it, so!

We have seen a lot of pictures, we have all our stories and memories.
The Taurus as we all know hem is maybe the oldest mostly used multy radio controlled model airplane.

What is my goal?

Try to find out the thoughts of Ed Kazmirski by reconstructing the history, and check them with the pictures we have.

More times I did tell that maybe the "Crate Taurus" of Africa was the basic of "our modern" Taurus.
There are several details I did not talk about in the past, but they still do feed my thinking.
Maybe because of the fact I built models for more then 42 years now and also design them.
A pro is that I was also a glider pilot and instrumentation, control and electronic engineer.

The facts

Picture 1
We all see the 4 holes in the fuse? Ones I did thought it had to do with replacement of the internal equipment because of the CG and swept backwards wings????
Wrong I think, there can be more!
I think It has more to do with the volume of the proportional radio in the past,
So, the fuselage was designed for the reeds receiver in the first place.
In 1963 Ed get his proportional and has to make space in the fuselage .
But,

Picture 2
Replace the two switches was not enough of course:
Also the front side if the centresection of the wing had to give his space so, the remakable open frontside of the wings.
This is a risky case because the strongness of the wing will be a lot less. This you only do when you have to modificate a plane!! Not basicly!

For me it is a indication that the two wingsets we know now, from auction 2 (picture 2)
but also the 3th wingset both were used with proportional radio. (picture 3)

A second indication that the fuselage of the "Oldest Taurus" could be the fuse of auction 2!
When you design a new model airplane, you do not want the "design specific situation" that you use the space in the D centresection of the wings (Set your knife in it!).
So in the basics the fuselage of auction 2 did fly with a wingset with closed centresection and so with reeds I still think!!
When it did fly with reeds than it can be with the wings of auction 1 because these wingset still has a closed centresection (picture 4) and do not belonge to the fuse in the first place.
If this was true, than I will see on a day this Taurus of Ed with reeds in the past.

Is it possible to check this these days with the fuselage of aution 2, so a question?
Is there room enough for a reeds receiver and servo's (relailess of course), with maybe the batterie beneath the fuel tank?
Because there we have that remarkable low bottomline of the tankcompartiment!

If it is possible than still that can be in the period that the crate picture is taken, because there we see probably the wings of auction 1 on the left side and the fuse of auction 2 on the right side.
The other wing on the right side is a pobably a MAN Magazine / Top Flite / circulating plan wing, with closed centresection!
On that picture there is no antanna (receiver) in the fuse on the right side.

Next time we are going to think what Ed has to do to design the Top Flite / Man Magazine / circulating plan Taurus


Cees