Gents,
While preparing the crate for making more pictures I did receive an article of Airplane News, November 1963, title: Third Radio Control World Championships (1963), reporter Steward Uwins. See the picture
I did not see this article before and show you a most important part of the text (page 335) for this thread.
Because I could not show the acrobat reader text better than as on the picture, I do add all the additional data in the picture and also the 1 : 1 text. There is written:
The finish on most of the models was outstanding. Lufthansa awarded a trophy for concours d’elegance and this was won by master finisher himself, Ed Kasmirski with his original Taurus, now some 2 ½ years old and still shining like new.
Of course on my own computer I can read the article without problems so, to check, read the original article and see what is written down by the reporter.
Conclusion:
As I did try to explain many times before, the Taurus of Auction 2, now own by Duane Wilson (Kingaltair), really is the first Taurus Ed did ever make, started probably in March, April 1961.
What to do?
For many months I was busy for the members of the USA to try to reconstruct this most original Taurus there ever was, now we not only see I was right, it was also the later winner of the Lufthansa awarded trophy of the concourse elegance of the World Championships in 1963.
The biggest problem for me was ever, making my story believed, because whatever I brought they never did, all was turned around 180 degrees.
For the owner of the Taurus of auction 2 of e-bay (Kingaltair) all other messages were better than my messages. I was the only one!
This all started long time ago already in the thread :Ed Kazmirski’s Taurus.
More times I did ask for cooperation with the people of SPA and/or VR/CS, (Kingaltair but also pimmnz) because I did found it so important for the history of Ed Kazmirski. You’ll understand, I never received an answer. For trying to prove I was right I spend a lot of time and for long time it seems to be all for nothing,
As counter part of the process, my reward was, there were messages infiltrated in my thread to let also other people think it could not be true what I brought, see post 146 on page 6 of my thread: Redesign and Reconstruction of the Oldest Taurus on Earth and in many others posts, also in the Ed Kazmirski’s Taurus.
I show an example: post 146, page 6
ORIGINAL: kingaltair
Message shortened by Taurus Flyer
The question I have is "why would Ed change canopies and pilot figures after the carrier wing periodthere isn't a reason for it"? Though you are obviously confident in your laser-beam measurements, I am not as confident in measurements made off small photographs, sometimes taken at undetermined angles such as the "crate photo". The angles may "play tricks" with the way things appear. The color photo you have marked at 45 degrees, I would have drawn at a lower angle. Drawing an angle on a continuously curving surface such as the front of a canopy is not precise, but is subjective, and may be influenced somewhat by what you are trying to prove.
I will admit that the canopy from my Dad's color picture seems to appear higher, but is the difference in appearance obvious enough to PROVE the canopies are different, or could it be just the photo or difference in camera angle? There is no trace when closely looking at the fuselage, that there had ever been another canopy on it in the past. There are also no cuts in the fuselage top block where a pilot may have entered the fuse in the past.
You may be right..just pointing out other possibilites.
Duane
What I read now in the article of Airplane news, November 1963, title: Third Radio Control World Championships (1963) did make it all clear to me; I was right from the beginning, right also on every moment in the Ed Kazmirski’s Taurus thread with nearly every fact.
The Taurus of auction 2 was really the, more times changed, original of around April 1961 and not only did I tell you this more times in the past, also Ed Kazmirski did tell this personally to Duane Wilson (Kingaltair)!
Because I now strongly believe the people of SPA and VR/CS already know this themselves I stop with proving and will not finish my action to make a duplicate of the picture of the crate. Even if I do an outstanding job, of course nobody will believe it in the future again, just like anything in the past and more Mac Giver stories will be the result.
Some of you maybe ask, why? What could be the reason? I tell you, ask. Ask it the people of SPA and or VC/RS, I already did get a message with an explanation.
I’ll finish the Wester Taurus, the plane of the crate, the copy of the Really Oldest Taurus on Earth.
I will use of course, without any problem, all the additional information I can put from the existing pictures of the Taurus of auction 2, from now on, to make it easy for me.
I will fly the Taurus this summer and maybe will have the same experience Ed did have on the moment he did fly the plane the first time in 1961. If there are people interested in the next part of the program let me know and I will continue! Maybe you again WEDJ?
I want let Duane Wilson (Kingaltair) know; Ed Kazmirski was a real Master Finisher Himself and not only a designer and pilot, I did tell you in the past. You’ll never will see any detail of the modifications because what I understand from you, you never did design a model yourself.
The next point is, if the plane crashes in the future, it is all over, because nobody will ever get him back on earth again, simple impossible, even Ed did know. That was the reason you find it in the crate, 48 years old. That is the reason I think this Taurus deserves a better place, in the AMA museum, because it was the only winner of the
Lufthansa awarded trophy for concours d’elegance ever!
Cees, Taurus Flyer