ORIGINAL: AndyKunz
Cees, are you ignoring my questions? Do you really think people don't build models, especially prototypes, from sketches?
I spent this morning going through my collection (several large boxes of rolled plans) as I am having them scanned for posterity. In the process I found quite a few of my old designs and some from a friend which are little more than "napkin" sketches. One is even on brown paper, and was used as the basis for a published plan in Flying Models. I found another which, though on vellum, may not scan well because the pencil does not provide good contrast, yet there's a successfully-flown model built from those plans hanging in my garage.
I think that you do not give builders credit.
And I hope you fix the tail on your World's-Almost-Taurus so it looks more like a real Taurus.
Andy
Andy,
About that fin and rudder, I do read your question!
When we look at the planes of the champions of 1962, Tom Brett ”Perigee” (L) and Harry Brooks, “Reb”(R) , than from both is told they have influences of the Orion of Ed Kazmirski! See picture 1.
Tom did try to let the Perigee “not, to look like” the Orion.
But what about that “sweptback banked fin and rudder”?
It does not look like the Orion fin and rudder! No, but what about the Taurus, Oldest Taurus on Earth?
1961
It could be the situation, Ed did research to step over from tail dragger to tricycle,
I did say in the Ed Kazmirski’s Taurus thread, you could not step over from (old)tail dragger to tricycle plane, but have to redesign a new fuselage with other angles of wing and stab and tail cone!
The result of this first step could for this reason be a “FLOP”, and that costs Ed a lot of points the first part of 1961.
Perigee
If someone can show me a picture of the
Nimbus of Tom Brett and can tell the design period of the
Perigee, maybe we can conclude the swept back fin and rudder of the Perigee is a first Taurus “look like” situation!
We know Tom and Ed did fly on same airfields sometimes (Detroit Invitationals!)
BTW, the TE of the rudder is a detail we never know of the fuselage of the Taurus in the crate, Ed’s first contest Taurus, because it is not visible on the crate picture.
I will make a photo animation of an possible rudder TE if Tom Brett could have seen the Taurus in the past before he did design the Perigee.
When this story fits? Hmmmmmm!
Maybe in that situation Harry Brooks have had met Ed Kazmirski during the Internats of 1962 in Great Britain, who knows?.
So changing fin and Rudder Andy?
No this is Classic Pattern Flying and we do not change fins and rudders of the originals, only try to duplicate as best as we can!
So they look like and that is what wé want!
Cees