RE: Ed Kazmurski's Taurus
Found on a C/L newsgroup.
Ray
Just a couple comments: First, about 20 years ago, I competed in one of the last Chicago Model Masters C/L events, held at Kickapoo Woods, near Riverdale, Illinois. Toward the end of the event, someone mentioned that Ed Kazmirski was flying in the adjacent R/C field.
Now, Ed hadn't been too active flying R/C, since proportional gear came out. He claimed he could never get used to it, and preferred the old reed transmitters.
I walked over, and he was flying a Taurus pattern ship with a venerable K&B 45 engine, but with a whale of a baseball-bat thick wing. Between flights, he commented that he was experimenting with a 33% wing thickness!
I began to spout Carl Goldberg's teachings, of which he was well aware. He explained that he wanted to try a setup with LOTS of drag, to slow down the airplane, especially in nose-down maneuvers....