Ben Lanterman,
ORIGINAL: Ben Lanterman
Hi Duane,
I just came back in town from a trip. In general everything that you wrote fits. The Taurus was good for it's time to do the required pattern of that time and using the radios of that time which were terrible! I hated the old reed sets - you had to tune and tune and fiddle and tune - I am totally impressed that Ed could keep his Taurus in one piece for as long as he did.
Message shortened be me Taurus Flyer.
It is interesting stuff...
Ben
I think it is better to discus your way of thinking about the Top Flite Taurus in the thread: Ed Kazmirski’s Taurus so I did copy your post in the other thread.. (Post 275 dat 1/25/2009)
The reason I did start
this thread was because for many years I do fly my Taurus and Orion and by incidence I discovered last year there was an older Taurus, already in 1961.
The information about the period of before the Top Flite Taurus is enough for me to build this prototype again and that is I am doing..
Because a lot of people did give me the sign they do like this thread I did start this and it is good to continue the separation between the Top Flite Taurus and the Oldest Taurus on Earth.
There is no any reason to discuse anything about the Oldest Taurus on Earth, I did tell you before, also with the tank and the two holes in the firewall, but the same I can tell you about tailfeathers, dihedral and so on..
Everthing I do is duplicate the plane of the crate as good as possible and I can finish that job I know for sure now. I also do not use assistence because it all has more to do with mechanical engineering and scratch building.
I did copy you post and the post of WEDJ in the thread of Ed Kazmirski’s Taurus and did ask Duane to discuse about thise cases in that thread.
Cees.