ORIGINAL: AndyKunz
Duane,
Did Ed say in your interview that Simla was named for the town? I was under the impression that it was ''similar'' to a Taurus. ''Simla'' would be phonetically very close to how one would say ''similar'' if they had any sort of city accent. Maybe it was a play on both ideas?
Andy
Simla come from the town in the Himalayian mountains in India where he had traveled. The World Engines ad mentions that, (what a source of information that World Engines ad has been), and they had no idea when they wrote those couple paragraphs how we'd be searching every word for clues about the plane 45 years later.
Interestingly, Ed DID say he used to joke with people by first flying the Taurus-2, then the Simla...then telling them it was "simla" to the Taurus; he specifically told me that in our discussion.
Duane