ORIGINAL: pimmnz
.....Like you, I too am waiting to get some fuselage dimensions from the 'Cover Girl', perhaps we can prevail upon the good graces of Kingaltair, and he can park the assembled model with the rudder touching a wall, then take direct measurements from the wall to various obvious points on the airframe and allow us to adjust the plans we have to reproduce the cover girl too.
Evan.
What "Cover Girl"??
In September, at the VR/CS 4-day event including the ceremony where the Taurus is officially given to the museum, I will ask to keep the "Cover Girl" overnight, (alone...just the two of us), with me in the motel room, so I can take detailed measurements of her...(it)....against the wall...if the room is big enough. [8D]
It seems to me, that if you have plans for the original prototype, (the Myer plan), that it would be natural to want to build the prototype in an exact way from those plans. You would have, in effect, the exact same Taurus that Ed first flew on Thanksgiving 1961, as well as all those "friends of Ed" had for the summer of 1962, (before the kit came out later). I don't know why anyone with those plans, (wanting to build a scratch Taurus from them), would modify them. As I remember, the kit plan is essentially an inch longer, and most closely compares to the '62 NATS Taurus.
Still it would put the final touches on the "statistics" of that most famous of Ed's planes, and allow comparison with the various plans out there.
Direct measurement dimensions given by VR/CS president:
Here are the dimensions;
1) The length on the fuse bottom between the back of the wing bay, and where the tip of the fuse meets the rudder. 27"
2) The distance from the tip of the nose to the leading edge of the wing bay. 8 1/4"
3) The width of the horizontal stab from tip to tip. 27"
4) The fuse width, (outside to outside) of the halfway point between leading and trailing edges of the wing bay. 3 1/4"
Hope this helps
Duane