Hello Evan,

Picture 1 19 % wing of the Orion.

Never did tell something else, but!
I can you tell this: Evan, even when you write me “slows a little and the nose drops, not the tail”. I think: "Yes Evan but do not forget, after touchdown of the tricycle you still go on with Bingo 7, 8 and 9 . And when you do not know that, your (air-break-drag) chute is FOD for your buddy."
I was F5 Freedomfighter engineer in the past. Flight stops when your plane is back on the “flight Line” again. (Proto Taxi)
Wheelbrakes Evan, I can spend 5 posts only on that, nothing to do with flying but winning!! But a big differce when used on tailwheel planes or "nosewheelers"
(Nosewheelers would behave like skeelers without brakes on the wheele(r)s, LOL)

Constant speed was important, of course, but you always will be wondered about a lot things in live because you did stop learning too early.
You never did read any article about Ed, that is clear to me.
With speed control (but that isn’t constant speed) you can reach a more constant speed than used in the past and these days, also by using thick wings.

Yes Evan and that “much more ” is I am telling you and which you want us believe you all already know.
When I finish my story in the future there is no single reason I do not know and I want You do not know, why Ed did built his Oldest Taurus on Earth. My PM from the Orion pilot, I did receive about the “floating” Orion, I did tell you all so we can learn all these reasons. One of my most important factors of reconstruction is, not designing and reconstructing the Oldest Taurus on Earth, because that’s peanuts, but to let you all believe this story it true!

When I read your posts it is like, you will ignore the picture of the crate and all the development Ed did do in the past for every contest flyer.



So, not nice to read gents, some educational information compensation (EIC)

Look at the second picture, a lots of fun!!! 30 years ago.
To win the game your plane and flights has to be better under every condition:

1 wind
2 temperature
3 warm hands, personal physical conditions
4 electronics vario
5 design speed, lift, all kinds of drag
6 proportions think about the Sim La
7 construction how to keep all the pieces together and build light!!!!!

Why 7 construction?
This is the same glider last year I did show you in post 27 page 2 , the picture I show you now is 30 years old! The weight is nearly the same as my Orion!
BTW, with this scale glider,ASK 18, I never did win any contest of course, only to show you the way I did build gliders and I think know some facts of the tail cone.

Ed?
Drag? Weight? Weathervaning? See picture 3 Ed
Do not forget, even from the Orion the vin and stab are well designed for this, and is weather vaning depending of the friction of the tailwheel to withstand sideforces when turn with crosswind! Not only with the Taurus. Also trying to redesign the Taurus for Knife edge is destroing the anti weathervane capability during Proto Taxi.

There are already more reasons I can show you that Ed could have used the Oldest Taurus on Earth on moments you never expect. Because why should you use the TF/ MAN Taurus when you have a better one? Think about that, because I have done it already, long ago!

Ed did know it all, from his own biography, from Internet:

Ed’s very first model came not from a kit, but instead was something he put together on his own
without any help. The rubber band-powered model was made of 1/16-square balsa and covered
with silk, very fragile and very light. Ed enjoyed flying that plane immensely. His thrill with
model design would later pay off through the kitting of three RC models.


I did use rice paper, not silk, and did start with gliders! No money for kit.
Cees