Mark,

In the Netherlands the Holland Hornet say, "Before the facts become rusty, dose them!". see the Pope brake.

You did show me a double check of Kickapoo Woods, read post 563 of Ed Kazmirski’s Taurus thread:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=7880064


Just a couple comments: First, about 20 years ago, I competed in one of the last Chicago Model Masters C/L events, held at Kickapoo Woods, near Riverdale, Illinois. Toward the end of the event, someone mentioned that Ed Kazmirski was flying in the adjacent R/C field.

Now, Ed hadn't been too active flying R/C, since proportional gear came out. He claimed he could never get used to it, and preferred the old reed transmitters.

I walked over, and he was flying a Taurus pattern ship with a venerable K&B 45 engine, but with a whale of a baseball-bat thick wing. Between flights, he commented that he was experimenting with a 33% wing thickness!

I began to spout Carl Goldberg's teachings, of which he was well aware. He explained that he wanted to try a setup with LOTS of drag, to slow down the airplane, especially in nose-down maneuvers....



I will spend some time with the club names of Ed, but first, the next post:

Dethermalizer? Did your father trade in miracles?.

So more to come and success with the Taurus!

Cees


Edit:
Have attention for that K&B 45, that was mounted in the Taurus.
Probably still the original K&B 45 of 1961 and the crate picture and of course mounted with that engine mounting plate!
Lowest weight of engine and fuel!