Construction Classics

Taurus

Considered the model to beat in the early ’60s, Ed Kazmirski’s Taurus was the featured construction article in the January 1963 issue of Model Airplane News. The Taurus featured an extremely thick, 19 percent wing that helped it maintain a constant speed, and its extra-long fuselage smoothed the beeped reedcontrol inputs. Powered by a .45 engine, the 70-inchwingspan model was one of the first to incorporate strip ailerons, and it later became a Top Flite kit.