Duane I want to chime in here on the Taurus in regard to its pattern abilities. I have flowen a Taurus for more than a 1000 flights it was my first pattern plane. I flew it in 1984 to 1986, At that time in Canada we were changing from AMA style pattern to turnaround. I flew the Taurus to a second place finish at the 86 Canadain Nats in Advanced. The Taurus will knife edge very nicely but you have to fly it a little faster than it was probably designed to fly. I used a HP 61 with a 11x7.5 prop at 13000 RPM so it moved. Inverted flight is a small chalange but fly a little on the tail heavy side and it gets a lot easer. With turnaround it only suffers from being short coupled but in the lower classes it is still competitive. Just my .02