— = Janvary 1963-35 al Csnile Eo ‘karina ane ms sacnes 1962". QUTSTANDIN he Wer imap Gehiol= DOMINATED, AND THE DETROIT. IWARTONAL.Veco .45 up ont has special intoke resWicior Aesianed for slower Might with lighter plane > In the last few years RC equipment f i strides Radio ability is at an all-time ‘A bit der maybe, but sill the same old Kar et we oll know him-note hit sual fine frih. high, Properly maintained, this equip- ment now allows the modeler to con- ese centrate on the art of fying, During this .C mo ft has also un- dergone consid levelopment, our objective was to come up with a plane that would perform the maneuvers more nearly pe ‘more important, would be easy to fly. It goes without saying that smoothness is all important. Our thinking was that if we could de- BY ED KAZMIRSKI sign a plane that would fly slower still do clean maneuvers, we would have the answer. We ny new designs IN JUNE ‘60 MAAN. IT WAS STATED THAT OUR AUTHOR'S ‘ORION’ WAS THE the amswer. We see many n BEST MULTI OFFERED TO DATE-IT WAS! NOW WE GO ONE STEP FURTHER ANO Te tey really diferent? To change STATE HIS TAURUS IS THE BEST, BY BEST IS MEANT JUST THAT—A LOOK AT or wing may give some sight CONTEST RECORD SHOWS THAT THE MAN IN THE STREET IS DOING THE WINNING, here or thee, but-we were loo a design that was really di about two (Continued on next page) nd ond lov Ws Tours! at its very bes Photegropher wor inspired with this photo, ongle from beneoth medel coupled with be MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS © Janvary, 1963 u= ‘TAURUS—continued years of experimenting, (it added up to a lot of building land sweat) we evolved the design we now call the Taurus ‘What about the Taurus? What makes it different? Let's take a close look at its design, First, we must remember that to win a contest or master RC it is a combination of 65% pilot and 35% air- plane. A good pilot can take just about any design of ship ‘and win contests with it, But what about the average flier? He needs a ship with some built-in advantages. “The big difference in the Taurus is the thick wing section. 1 shows the long tail mement llerons more efective then wsvel oulbeard type lr the rokah We use @ modified NACA 2419. Let's consider the ad- vantages of the thick wing section. A thick section has lots of lift and plenty of drag. We need both. Why do we want drag? If we had a ship that always flew at the same speed, the control response would always be the same. In @ full scale airplane the pilot feels the pressure on the stick and’ by this feel he knows how much control to apply. In a model, we have to judge the speed and beep accordingly If we double the speed of a model, the drag goes up four times; therefore the thick (Continued on page 52)