Jorge Newbery (oz9479)

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Jorge Newbery. Rubber sport model. Classic Argentinian design.

Quote: "From our friend in Argentina, Mario Battagion, comes this plain vanilla endurance model, the 'Jorge Newbery', down to earth in basic design and eager to 'escape the bonds of earth'. Not an unusual design but one with an unusual story. Mario says:

This little rubber-powered model is as emblematic to the Argentineans as the 'Flying Aces Moth' is to the Americans. At the end of the 1940s, the 'Division Aeromodelismo,' a branch of the 'Departmento de Aviacion Civil', belonging to the 'Secretaria de Aeronautica,' created a series of simple models to introduce the beginners to model activity. The first model was a simple all-balsa, hand-launched glider named 'Dedalo', the second one a towline glider, with an all-sheet balsa fuselage and empennages and a built-up, paper-covered wing named 'Teniente Origone''. The third step in that building sequence was a 'stick-and-tissue' rubber model: the 'Jorge Newbery'. Complete kits and building instruction of the three models were given to schools - for free - all over the country, and model planes building soon became a natural subject at Primary and High Schools. (Oh! the Old Gone Golden Years!)

The Model: Original plans showed a 'how to' building sequence sketch, as well as how to carve a propeller (they are omitted on the plan I have drawn). Hundreds of thousands of aeromodelers from Argentina have built and flown it over the years, and it is still kitted and sold today. The model is easy to fly and will fly 'off the board' if properly built (light and without distortions). It is usually necessary to add about 2-3 degrees down and right thrust and a little left-tab on the rudder to make it fly in wide left circles (I make it fly in a left-left sequence). No incidence settings are needed and one rubber band 6 x 1 mm (or two 3 x 1 mm) provide enough power (This corresponds to one loop of 1/4 in or two loops of 1/8 in rubber Editor). Flight times of about 90 seconds are not difficult to obtain on calm days, but you can lose it if there are even little thermals..."

Originally published 1948. This here is a later adapted and redrawn plan by Mario Battagion, 2005.

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Supplementary file notes

Article, text only. From Windy Sock Newsletter, found online at https://volarlibremente.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/jorge-newbery-serie-escolar-argentina-1948/

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