John,

Thank you for compliments,

What do you mean with:

“facsimile of the Proportional Taurus”,

The Wester Taurus is a reconstruction of the maybe ever existing and in the past Oldest Taurus on Earth, .

And this Taurus never did fly with proportionals in the past, only reeds.

I first will built this Taurus by studying the photographical remains.
Next step is to fly and check if this really could be a appearance of the first Taurus from Ed Kazmirski.
To prove that, it had to fly without extra weight in the nose or tail (or nearly because of the silencer), because also Ed would never had to do that, I know for sure.
When that’s finished, I will make a flight report of that I let you all know.
Also the measured values of air speed are important to know, the story of the “constant speed”,
Story 684 page 28, just as down and side thrust of the engine.
At last I want to give you the possibility to built the plane your own to bring out plans or on another way, but first I want to finish the complete building and flying program. That’s my goal.

Flying will take place next summer or earlier. This is also depending from workload.
When designing the plane now, I am convinced that it is a beautiful plane.
The wing will nearly be the same as from your Top Flite Taurus only less dihedral because of the less fuselage height. I will use the threated hangings also. And maybe elastic bands to mount the wing.

Because the lower resistance of the fuselage I think the 6,5 CCM engine will be “more than enough”.
The horizontal tailplane does have less diagonals than the Top Flite Taurus, I did find out with the crate picture.

So John, that’s the story, and now yours, do me show some pictures please, we are all very interested.
And maybe in the future we are the only two Ed Kazmirski's Taurus pilots of that moment, or not?
When will you fly the plane?

Cees