Duane: Post 288
ORIGINAL: kingaltair
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Enough of these accusations. Find me a quote that says "...Ed tore his very first, original Taurus apart and totally rebuilt it with a new fin, stab, top block and wing..." and you've proven your point.
I have not to prove a point and I will explain.
I know Ed did not design and build his planes the way the “Blue Angel” is of which the fourth was the success plane I thought.
Ed Kazmirski did build the first type, has a development program for about 5 months before he could use the ship and did keep updating this later many times so he could use it on the highest levels of contest. Read what Ed did write about the development program of the Orion! See, the picture.
Ed Kazmirski himself did tell you, there were only three Taurusses and one of them was the Simla. Rest two, the two we see on the picture in the crate of Africa and later in the auctions.
See thread: Ed Kazmirski’s Taurus, Page 3, post 70,
ORIGINAL: kingaltair
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As for the workshop with many airframes, Ed told me, (unless I misunderstood him), that he only built the three planes after the Orion.....the original Taurus, a taper-wing Taurus he had that I have a picture of, and the Simla. I remember being surprised at the time, thinking he had a bid "stable" of planes.
Anyway...to me they appear to be the identical plane.
This is the reason you have the only real contest fuselage there was! This is also the fact I believe because this fits in any schedule and message.
BTW, I did tell in the thread Ed Kazmirski’s Taurus, page 4 and 5, the fuselage of the Taurus of Auction 2 is “As old as the way to Rome” when I saw the pictures the first time!
The article in Model Aircraft, November 1963, is also correct, and fits also in my time schedule, I did say “Old as the Way to Rome” and they say 2 ½ year so:
Start design and building the First Contest Taurus was about March 1961 so the age is 2 ½ years in August 1963 during the World Championships.
As we read in a lot of articles this is the only original first contest Taurus and personal ship of Ed Kazmirski and I have more signs of that!
The fuselage of the MAN Taurus (which Ed call the Original because this is the common known), has all the characteristics of TOP Flite Taurus and was much younger. Less than 1 ½ years old in Belgium. Ed did use the MAN fuse with the old contest wings we see in the crate of Africa I did show you.
The “brown paper and audiotape stories” I call Mac Giver stories until these are proved. This only could be true when Dennis also did have a (preproduction)Top Flite kit, so ask him!!!!
About the wingsadle post 289:
Because Ed did change the fuselage of his contest Taurus many times you cannot compare the wingsadle of my Wester Taurus (copy of the Oldest Taurus on Earth, Contest, date 1961), with the end result of 1964. I did show you this also already in the post 835 page 34 of the Ed Kazmirski’s Taurus.
This Is my explanation and the only way the facts fit. Not only the facts in this message, all the facts, more I did show in both threads.
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