Timm N2T-1

Ed and Dustin Newberg keep one of the world’s first composite aircraft flying

JAN TEGLER

OTTO WILLIAM TIMM gave Charles Lindbergh “his first ride in an airplane.” It’s a fact Ed Newberg is fond of relating. Like Newberg, Timm was a native Minnesotan, born in Lakeville, a suburb of Minneapolis about two hours east of Hector, the farming town near where Newberg grew up. Timm was a pioneer aviator who built and flew a replica Curtiss Pusher in 1911 and went on to design and build airplanes under his own name beginning in 1916, while also flying aircraft from other makers. In 1921 in Lincoln, Nebraska, he test-flew a Lincoln Standard L.S.5, a modified Standard J biplane that could seat five people. Lincoln was home to the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation’s flying school. Lindbergh was a student there and met Timm in February, 1922. Two months later,…

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Flight Journal (Digital) - 1 Issue, September - October 2022

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