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Old 04-01-2009 | 11:45 PM
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pimmnz
 
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Default RE: Ed Kazmurski's Taurus

Actually UStik, the TF kit plan and the MAN plan are essentially the same plan, with the various ribs and formers added to the MAN plan for the scratch builders. The MAN pan was released in conjunction with the TF kit, as a service to modellers, I guess. But, if you lay the Myers ribs over the MAN ribs, there is little to no difference in the sections. As you have found, the wings are the same. The only difference is in the fuselages, the biggest difference being the fuselage height, (+1/2" on the Myers) and the length (1" longer on the MAN/TF plan). There may be some positional differences in the formers, and the simplified fuselage section behind the wing, but nothing that eye would immediately pick up. The trick now is to build one of each, assuming you don't have one already, and take a photo of them in a box...
Actually, what we are now looking for is a drawing of Ed's 68" wing, although I doubt we will find one. A few dimensions from the existing one will have to suffice, then we can have the whole Africa adventure again! And the Nats winning model, though I have a feeling that that fuselage is not quite the same as the TF plan either, we will have to wait for a proper set of overall dimensions for that one. But this has been fun, and the discovery, and (hopefully) preservation of the Prototype Contest Taurus drawings has certainly made this (long) process really worthwhile. I must get some wood, I must get some wood...
Evan.