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English to Italian: Gliding over Rome General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Aerospace / Aviation / Space
Source text - English "When did I manage to fly in the Arcore? Was it 1950 or 1951? I still remember those days, the many days I spent at Linate making it flightworthy. At that time there was no illumination and no workshop, nor any other dainty bourgeois trappings, and the work was rather like the destruction of Carthage. I remember the mist of that autumn, the prayers I said over every rusty bolt, the times I cursed the engine compressor, the help my friends gave me. Gliding was certainly quite a different thing back in those days.
But somehow or other I flew in it, and actually made my first soaring flight, for almost ten minutes, over the control tower. Then the Arcore became a thing of the past and I was left with a feeling of admiration for a machine that was quite sound and really magnificent in spirals. I also thought that, despite the difficulty, it would have been possible to squeeze in a second pilot behind the spar, and I made a drawing and a few calculations to see what the result would be."
This was the beginning of the "Urendo", which first flew in June 1956. It was a two-seater glider with a 15-metre wing span, wooden wings and tailplane and fuselage in steel tubing.
In 1957 Walter Vergani wrote:
"..... that machine, which was quite an ugly sight and inspired the diabolical Gonalba to give it an equally ugly name, but which can be so manageable, solid and trustworthy that it really is a precious asset in the practice of the most beautiful and purest of sports."
Three units of the "Urendo" were built and these were designated as the A, B and C types. In the B and C types, flaps were fitted and the aileron and spoiler surfaces were varied. The wing has a negative sweep in the planform to allow for good balancing, also with only one pilot on board. It is rectangular in the mid section and trapezoidal at the tips, with tip pods. It has a laminar airfoil, CVV-type, metallic double spoilers and, in the B and C versions, has flaps with deflection angles of + 5 and - 45. The wing is fully covered in plywood, including the ailerons. The wing-fuselage couplings are of the 'three-point' type with two rear pins. All the pins are cylindrical and have handles. The polygonal-section fuselage has close, tandem pilot positioning, is in steel tubing and is covered in fabric. The cockpit is generously proportioned and the glider is fitted with a landing skid and a fixed wheel with a brake. The tailplane is in wood and has a ply skin.
Translation - Italian "Fu nel 50 o nel 51, che riuscii a volare sull'Arcore? Ricordo ancora i giorni - molti giorni - passati a Linate a metterlo a posto: allora non c'era la luce, ne' officina od altre borghesi mollezze, ed il lavoro ricordava molto la distruzione di Cartagine. Ricordo la nebbiolina di quell'autunno, le preghiere su ogni bullone arrugginito, gli accidenti mandati al motocompressore, l'aiuto degli amici: certo allora era un altro volo a vela.
Bene o male ci volai: e feci anche il mio primo veleggiamento - quasi dieci minuti - proprio sopra la torre di controllo. Poi l'Arcore uscì dalla mia vita, e mi rimase l'ammirazione per una macchina sana e veramente magnifica in spirale. Pensavo anche che - sia pure a fatica - fosse possibile incastrarci un secondo pilota dietro il longherone: e feci un disegno e qualche conto per vedere cosa si sarebbe ottenuto."
E così nacque l'"Urendo", un biposto dall'apertura alare di 15 m, con ala e piani di coda in legno, fusoliera in tubi d'acciaio, che volò nel giugno del 1956.
Scrive Walter Vergani nel 1957: "... quella macchina così brutta a vedersi, che ispirò al diabolico Gonalba un nome altrettanto brutto, ma che sa essere così servizievole e solida e fedele da costituire un prezioso elemento nella pratica dello sport più bello e più puro."
L'"Urendo" è stato costruito in tre esemplari contrassegnati rispettivamente con A,B,C. Sui tipi B e C furono installati gli ipersostentatori e variate le superfici di alettoni e diruttori. L'ala ha in pianta freccia negativa, per consentire un buon bilanciamento anche con un solo pilota, è rettangolare nella parte centrale e trapezoidale nelle parti terminali, con fusetti, ha profilo laminare, diruttori doppi metallici tipo CVV, e, nelle versioni B e C, ipersostentatori con angoli di manovra di + 5 gradi e - 45 gradi; è tutta ricoperata in compensato, compresi gli alettoni. Gli attacchi ala-fusoliera sono "a tre punti", più due spinotti posteriori, tutti spinotti cilindrici con maniglia. La fusoliera, a sezione poligonale, con posti di pilotaggio in tandem ravvicinati, è in tubi d'acciaio e copertura in tela, ha posto di pilotaggio generosamente dimensionato in larghezza, pattino d'atterraggio e ruota fissa con freno. I piani di coda sono in legno con copertura in compensato.
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