Gents,

Again pictures with dashes, squares etc.

Les Fruh and were does your Taurus came from?
But first, the proportions to archive.

I did make a picture of the Oldest Taurus on Earth, result of the reconstruction of the crate picture of April 1962, with reconstructed, the same Point of View as the Les Fruh Taurus picture. See picture 1 and 2.

Understand there is only one “same Point of View” and finding this point gives the possibility to combine all the parts of the two planes.
So, top of the fuselage, some parts of the tail and the wingtips are replaced in the Les Fruh picture to measure.

I am not looking for distances in the corners in the picture so the distortion of the pictures is minimal and partly compensated too.

The Oldest Taurus on Earth has bar line on the fuselage with cm dashes on the important positions and again the markers for the wing saddle and firewall.

What is the result of the combined picture 3, comparing the Les Fruh Taurus and the Oldest.
1 Tail cone of the “Les Fruh” Taurus is 12,5 cm (5 inches) longer, see the .”open green square”
2 Wing LE 1 cm to the front.”Blue closed square”, probably the result of swept back and result of that a little longer root saddle.
3 Les Fruh Stab has probably a normal Taurus span, ”green closed square” (but I can measure that later also with reference dashes on the stab).
4 The Les Fruh wing is a Taurus wing with straight TE, some more span than the OTOE. (I think 2 inch more, but I can measure that later also with references dashes on the wingtips).

So again, “Les Fruh were did ypur Taurus came from?”
The Les Fruh Taurus is a fixation of a moment in the evolution process of the contest Taurus over many years that started in April, May, 1961 and ended in 1965.
Still thinking about building also the “Les Fruh” in the future.
At least I will have enough Taurusses to fly, exact, no experimental, that’s Les and Ed did already for me

I discovered also a third person, so more to come!!!
Last picture, Ed and Les know each other very well !!

Cees