ORIGINAL: AndyKunz
If you cannot prove the BOLDand this is asked before, I cannot use it in my schedule!
They did not even had pianowire in Rhodesia in 1961/1962 and could not color paint models. it was the Middle of Nowhere for the modeler, that is what we know from the Dutch and English modelers.
So prove and we can go on and if you cannot, stop arguing because it is not believed, even you tell me this hundred times.
Cees,
You're just as guilty here. You ask Evan to prove something (a statement made by Dennis Hunt) and then base your own theory on
anonymous modelers. In any situation, one must choose the identified source over the anonymous source.
Andy
I have mostly stayed away from commenting on this thread out of respect (and friendship) with Cees. I tremendously enjoyed the "Ed Kazmirski's Taurus" thread, and learned a lot from Cees and all the other contributers. I got to know some wonderful guys from around the world...Cees, UStik, Ray, Pimmnz, Chuck Noble etc. So I like and respect Cees. This is his thread, and he is certainly entitled to "spin" his theory of the "Oldest Taurus on Earth".
That being said, everyone who reads this thread should realize that there isn't universal agreement about everything Cees believes. In the other thread I tried hard to understand, follow, and believe his conclusions, but in the end I came away believing more like Evan above. Cee's theory is elaborate, and is all built upon the Taurus on the right side of the crate being the original. Once you arrive at that conclusion, all the "facts" have be made to fit that theory, and it influences everything that is said from that point on.
If it IS the oldest Taurus fuselage, then the original stab, vertical fin, and top block were all removed and replaced because there is no evidence on the existing top block that it had ever been REPAIRED or that an older pilot figure INSIDE the fuse had been replaced by one glued to the surface.
The quote on post #229 about the "old reliable" Taurus could just as easily be understood to be the actual plane Ed flew at the "worlds", (flown on reeds), compared to the "Carrier-wing" Taurus which we know to have been the backup because of the FAI stickers still present. The back-up would be understood by most people to be "new" meaning it was a straight trailing edge, taper-wing version of the original Taurus with a thicker airfoil and stab...and designed to fly on proportional instead of reeds.
Don't get mad at me Cees or verbally "slap me down" too badly. Good luck with the Wester Taurus...I'm sure it will look and fly great. It probably will be lighter than the Taurus that sold first on eBay last fall. We have a lot more in common than we have differences. We all love the Taurus, and are interested in its history. We just don't agree about every detail of that history.
Duane