ORIGINAL: Taurus Flyer
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">Gents,</div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">Of course I did know Ed Kazmirski did live in Calumet City and that is close to Chicago, .I did copy the stickers of the canopy. But>>>></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">Did you know Ed nearly did live in the backyard of Top Flite? Distance between Ed, Calumet City,and Top Flite Chicago was 20,4 miles!</div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">Yes, 20,4 miles and 30 minutes to travel.</div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">Of course there is more to come but this I already want you to show, any snap shot, plan or drawing gives me information!</div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">Cees.
I'm sure that the short distance between Ed and Top Flite made meetings much easier, but that has little to do with whether or not Ed ever built and flew a "pre-production Taurus" kit made by Top Flite. Maybe yes, maybe no...if he did, he probably modified it.
There is no hard evidence either way about whether or not Ed built and flew a kit of any kind.
I CAN tell you this...in his articles it is obvious Ed paid tremendous attention to the selection of his balsa, as he specified higher weight balsa for innerwing ribs, and lighter balsa for outer ribs. Ed's models, (and I have held the Taurus-2 and weighed it), are built extremely light, with extensive use of "contest balsa". It is highly doubtful that Ed would have built a kit right off the production line; Top Flite would have had to supply special balsa for him which they certainly could have done.
It is interesting to seethe differences between Ed's personal models, (as I believe Cees pointed out), and the production kit. The Myers, (Meyers...whatever), prototype Taurus was closest to the Top Flite kit.</div>