Gents

For who is interested in the history of the Oldest Taurus on Earth, the original contest Taurus of Ed.

In Post 293 page 12 I did tell you there was already on 2 and 3 June 1962 a contest Taurus pilot, Maxey Hester who did win, with his Taurus, in Lincoln Nebraska a contest and a lot of them did follow him that year.
It was like WWI with the Fokker Menace in Europe, there was a Kazmirski Menace with 12 Victories for the Taurus pilots on US Nats and invitationals.

I did take a search on the WWW to find out the reason, why there were so many Taurusses on the contests in 1962.
I did find a reason and maybe there were more.

If somebody can do a second check, please do! I did find this on February 17, 2009!

If you are interested, read a part of history of the Radio Control Club of Detroit, one of the oldest chartered clubs of the AMA.
We already did talk about Tom Brett! His club and of course many others!


You can find the article: http://www.rccd.org/About%20RCCD.htm

Look in: HISTORY OF RCCD
A history of Radio Control Club of Detroit
1953 - 2003

If you do not want to read the whole story, then start with Chapter one: ”The beginning” page 4 bottom of the page. I did copy the text.

Start of copy:

On the week following Labor Day, traditionally the “Cream of the Crop” of RC flyers in the United States and Canada gather in Detroit for what has become to be known as ” The Experts Contest”.

For the past three years it has been formally called “The Detroit Invitational” and prior to that “The Great Lakes Meet”.

The entry list is determined by invitation from the RCCD.
By limiting the entry list to about 20 of the top flyers it was felt that a truly dream contest would result.”

This was the tenth anniversary of the event. The following list of previous winners indicates the wide geographical spread:

1953 - JIM PEPINO - LONDON, ONTARIO
1954 - L.D. CRISP - PERRYSVILLE, INDIANA
1955 - HAROLD DEBOLT - BUFFALO NEW YORK
1956 - JIM GALL - TOLEDO, OHIO
1957 - ED KAZMARSKI - CALUMET CITY, ILLINOIS
1958 - ED KAZMARSKI - CALUMET CITY, ILLINOIS
1959 - ED KECK - ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
1960 - BOB DUNHAM - LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1961 - ED KAZMARSKI - CALUMET CITY, ILLNOIS
end of copy


The week after Labor Day has to be the week of 10 - 17 September so the weekend of 16 and 17 September.

What I show you, Ed did use with success after about 5 months of optimizing, his own design contest Taurus to beat the 19 best RC pilots of the United States and Canada.
What about that, a fact not to forget because they also did not, never!!

The start of the Taurus Menace that would follow Ed for two years just like the Fokker Menace, only in Europe Ed was the person to beat!

So Ed did not only get the Lufthansa awarded Trophy Concours d’Elegance in August 1963 for his Contest Taurus.
He also was, with this new contest Taurus, already in September 1961;

Winner of the “The Detroit Invitational”
(or did they call it still "The Great Lakes Meet"?)

Master finisher of plane and place, Ed Kazmirski, Ed Kazmurski or Ed Kazmarski, he is all the same with a different name!!
(And in 1962 he did it again!?)



We in Europe still know that menace and will never forget!


Cees