The TIPSYJunIor Although designed solo elementary train ing Junior pleasing appearance design lends itself RC CL FF Sport Sport Scale formseven Peanut LIGHT AIRCRAFT creations have al ways caught fancy aviation world due perhaps imaginative yet practical designs Should American designer submit evalua tion prototype light aircraft US Air Force Test Center Edwards AFB California might wonder what en suing result would yet precisely what Ernest 0 Tips confidently subjected Tipsy Junior aircraft England itinerary E0 Tips aeronautical career certainly has proved him great lightplane pioneers spanning back 1908 brother Maurice built flew first airplane canard biplane featured shaft-driven reversible propellers very ad vanced innovation time EO Tips Managing Director Avions Fairey firm organized 1931 Gosselies Belgium primarily engaged production fighter aircraft Royal Belgian Air Force did hinder Tips continuing build light air craft own design 1935 model Tipsy S work genius unequaled day diminu tive all-wood single-place sport aircraft initially powered Douglas 600 engine developing 18 hp maximum due Tips capacity aeronautical de sign 24/2 ft craft achieved top speed 90 mph Tipsy designs attracted much attention England Europe Africa 1935 1940 least seven Considered finest performing small aircraft ever built all-wood aerobatic single-seater developed just after war Avions Fairey Belgium U Kenneth D Wilson different Tipsy models would designed flown some being manufac tured under license England Tipsy Light Aircraft Ltd South Africa Pretoria Light Aircraft Co decided Avions Fairey facility abandoned during mid1940 German Army rapidly ad vancing Belgium Before evacuation six unassembled Tipsy aircraft hidden away discovered Nazis assembled enjoyed invading German Luftwaffe its leisure cessation hostilities Fairey Aviation Company Ltd England parent organization reopened Avions Fairey Gosselies 1946 again E 0 Tips Director Division waste time spite scarcity building materials other handicaps Tips immediately began improved design 1937 Tipsy model BC aircraft tabbed Tipsy Junior Veteran designer Tips known wooden constructed aircraft Tipsy Junior no exception Wood cheaper strong er weight weight steel cannot fatigue production well homebuilding wood takes less tooling jig work forming blocks Tipsy Junior built fun airplane inexpensive recreational fly ing involving great expenditure money time construction basic Tipsy Junior instrument panel layout reflects line engineering its six fundamentals switch dual ignition altimeter metric reading airspeed indica tor tachometer oil pressure gauge slip turn indicator prototype Tipsy Junior registra tion 00-ULA powered Aer 38 Model Aviation simplified Tipsy Junior panel certainly functional left parking brake basic wood frame can seen few details would easy model AMA Scale onca JAP J99 36-hp flat-twin engine Flight characteristics performances good Tips enhanced installation 62-hp Czechoslovak ian Walter Mikron engine streamlined cowling other design improvements Tipsy Junior designed aim mass producing aircraft extremely simple construction further prove airworthiness Junior decided submit 00ULA program qualitative tests maneuverability aerobatics Aeroplane Armament Experimental Establishment Boscombe Down England testing establishment noted getting out product 00-ULA subjected chandelles lazy eights very tight turns spins stalls loops rolls conclusions officail test report indeed very flat tering quote flew aircraft unanimous saying Tipsy Junior very easy pleasure fly no vices considered ideal student pilots flying gain expe rience private pilots license As result tests Tipsy Junior granted Inteinational Certificate Airworthiness Aerobatic Category quite feat aircraft light air craft class during era Although Junior restricted inverted flight due engine fuel starvation did serve dual training programaerobatic trainer normal level-flight training solo student second Tipsy Junior 00-TIT built featuring other refinements such new style wing tip wood fabric craft However Tipsy Junior did reach production time available kit form American home builder negotiations failed American based company went out business Californian interest tried get Japanese build Tipsy Junior power 65-hp Continental en gine Japan still recovering WW II process restoring aviation industry plans did go yond talking stage grand finale Tipsy Junior came F 0 Tips Tipsy Nipper smallest Tipsy lineage aircraft tricycle geared Nipper initial production run 50 aircraft Manufacture Junior shelved As late 1971 00-ULA still existance England flying out Blackbush Airport G-AMVP still Walter Mikron engine However owner plans groom aircraft Formula V racing current popularity allwood homebuilt aircraftwitness nual Experimental Aircraft Association Convention fly-In year Oshkosh Wisconsin aircraft such Fly Baby Volksplanesurely revival Tipsy Junior would complete success March 1978 39 Oodles wing tail area parallel edges simple faired fuselage make subject attractive real ship stressed 5-G load certified Aerobatic Category cockpit winascreen aimosi moo u enty room tank RC CL should oaiipark gas free flight rubber Both fixed moveable surtaces nave pienxy OT area ann Tar models can quickly cut sheet balsa belly fairing terminates interesting manner poses no problem r AVIONS FAIREYsA DivisioN TIPSY AERODROME GOSSE LIES LETTERING DETAIL WHICH APPEARS ON BOTH SIDES OF RUDDER NO SCALE ELEVATOR AND. ww STABILIZERIS WOODCONSTRUCTED WITH FABRIC COVERING0D FABRIC COVERED WOOD STRINGERS WING IS OF DOUBLE SPAR CONSTRUCTION WOOD RIBS AND FABRIC COVERED EO TIPS TIPSY JUNIOR LOGO WHICH APPEARS ON BOTH SIDES OF FIN NO SCALE METAL FILLETAILERONS ARE WOOD CONSTRUCTED WITH FABRIC COVERING L LEADING EDGE OF WING IS WOOD COVERED TO FRONT SPAR WITH FABRIC OVERLAY B OIL FILL METAL COWLING COOLING AIR OUTLET RIGHT SIDE COWLING METAL FUEL TANK 13 GAL CAPACITY B ABC -A YQ2JbtbY B C r FUEL GAUGE AND TANK FILL C B A__725~ N IA____ D ~ DRAINB WOOD FUSELAGE SIDES WITH FABRIC OVERLAY AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JUNIOR11 DRAWN INKED JULY1977 BY KENNETH D WILSONAMA 14065 EVANSVILLE INDIAN A KZ AVPRINT K 40 Model Aviation 0 I23456 11111IIII FOR MODEL AVIATION PLATE 2 L YELLOW El BLUE BLACK 7 -10 -1 341/2 -r 1-65 1-4 DO-ULA COLOR SCHEME RESEARCH[v32]NH] CORRESPONDENCE FROM MJP TIPS MANAGER TECHNICAL DEPT AVIONS FAIRE Y S OC T 1955 DRAWING RESEARCH[v32]NH] AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JUNIOR BLUEPRINTS SUPPLIED BY MR DELHAMENDE SALES PR OMOT ION AVIONS FAIREYSAMARCH1961 MR ROBERT J CLEMENS AERONAUTICAL COLLECTION D-0 FABRIC COVERED WOOD STRINGERS METAL FILLET LL5 h-I6H WING IDI/2L 1-1/2 F US E L G E LAYOUT OF REGISTRATION LETTERS ON WING AND FUSELAGE I\I 5- 2 -W W METAL COWLING BB AA V WOOD PROP HAS NATURAL VARNISHED FINISH ___ PERFORMANCES WITH WALTER MIKRON ENGINE 62 hp -MAX SPEED MPH CRUISING SPEED 100 MR H -POWER ON STALL25MPH -POWER OFF STALL PH LANDING SPEED SI MPH -CLIMB -1000 FT/MIN -RANGE 370 MILES REF AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JR BROCHURE K4Z AVPRINT S AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JUNIOR DRAWN INKED JULY 1977 BY KENNETH D WILSONAMA14065 EVANSVILLEINDIANA 0 I23456FOR 11111IIIIMODELAVIATION PLATE 2 2 March 1978 41 V 22 11-1/2
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/03
Page Numbers: 38, 39, 40, 41
The TIPSYJunIor Although designed solo elementary train ing Junior pleasing appearance design lends itself RC CL FF Sport Sport Scale formseven Peanut LIGHT AIRCRAFT creations have al ways caught fancy aviation world due perhaps imaginative yet practical designs Should American designer submit evalua tion prototype light aircraft US Air Force Test Center Edwards AFB California might wonder what en suing result would yet precisely what Ernest 0 Tips confidently subjected Tipsy Junior aircraft England itinerary E0 Tips aeronautical career certainly has proved him great lightplane pioneers spanning back 1908 brother Maurice built flew first airplane canard biplane featured shaft-driven reversible propellers very ad vanced innovation time EO Tips Managing Director Avions Fairey firm organized 1931 Gosselies Belgium primarily engaged production fighter aircraft Royal Belgian Air Force did hinder Tips continuing build light air craft own design 1935 model Tipsy S work genius unequaled day diminu tive all-wood single-place sport aircraft initially powered Douglas 600 engine developing 18 hp maximum due Tips capacity aeronautical de sign 24/2 ft craft achieved top speed 90 mph Tipsy designs attracted much attention England Europe Africa 1935 1940 least seven Considered finest performing small aircraft ever built all-wood aerobatic single-seater developed just after war Avions Fairey Belgium U Kenneth D Wilson different Tipsy models would designed flown some being manufac tured under license England Tipsy Light Aircraft Ltd South Africa Pretoria Light Aircraft Co decided Avions Fairey facility abandoned during mid1940 German Army rapidly ad vancing Belgium Before evacuation six unassembled Tipsy aircraft hidden away discovered Nazis assembled enjoyed invading German Luftwaffe its leisure cessation hostilities Fairey Aviation Company Ltd England parent organization reopened Avions Fairey Gosselies 1946 again E 0 Tips Director Division waste time spite scarcity building materials other handicaps Tips immediately began improved design 1937 Tipsy model BC aircraft tabbed Tipsy Junior Veteran designer Tips known wooden constructed aircraft Tipsy Junior no exception Wood cheaper strong er weight weight steel cannot fatigue production well homebuilding wood takes less tooling jig work forming blocks Tipsy Junior built fun airplane inexpensive recreational fly ing involving great expenditure money time construction basic Tipsy Junior instrument panel layout reflects line engineering its six fundamentals switch dual ignition altimeter metric reading airspeed indica tor tachometer oil pressure gauge slip turn indicator prototype Tipsy Junior registra tion 00-ULA powered Aer 38 Model Aviation simplified Tipsy Junior panel certainly functional left parking brake basic wood frame can seen few details would easy model AMA Scale onca JAP J99 36-hp flat-twin engine Flight characteristics performances good Tips enhanced installation 62-hp Czechoslovak ian Walter Mikron engine streamlined cowling other design improvements Tipsy Junior designed aim mass producing aircraft extremely simple construction further prove airworthiness Junior decided submit 00ULA program qualitative tests maneuverability aerobatics Aeroplane Armament Experimental Establishment Boscombe Down England testing establishment noted getting out product 00-ULA subjected chandelles lazy eights very tight turns spins stalls loops rolls conclusions officail test report indeed very flat tering quote flew aircraft unanimous saying Tipsy Junior very easy pleasure fly no vices considered ideal student pilots flying gain expe rience private pilots license As result tests Tipsy Junior granted Inteinational Certificate Airworthiness Aerobatic Category quite feat aircraft light air craft class during era Although Junior restricted inverted flight due engine fuel starvation did serve dual training programaerobatic trainer normal level-flight training solo student second Tipsy Junior 00-TIT built featuring other refinements such new style wing tip wood fabric craft However Tipsy Junior did reach production time available kit form American home builder negotiations failed American based company went out business Californian interest tried get Japanese build Tipsy Junior power 65-hp Continental en gine Japan still recovering WW II process restoring aviation industry plans did go yond talking stage grand finale Tipsy Junior came F 0 Tips Tipsy Nipper smallest Tipsy lineage aircraft tricycle geared Nipper initial production run 50 aircraft Manufacture Junior shelved As late 1971 00-ULA still existance England flying out Blackbush Airport G-AMVP still Walter Mikron engine However owner plans groom aircraft Formula V racing current popularity allwood homebuilt aircraftwitness nual Experimental Aircraft Association Convention fly-In year Oshkosh Wisconsin aircraft such Fly Baby Volksplanesurely revival Tipsy Junior would complete success March 1978 39 Oodles wing tail area parallel edges simple faired fuselage make subject attractive real ship stressed 5-G load certified Aerobatic Category cockpit winascreen aimosi moo u enty room tank RC CL should oaiipark gas free flight rubber Both fixed moveable surtaces nave pienxy OT area ann Tar models can quickly cut sheet balsa belly fairing terminates interesting manner poses no problem r AVIONS FAIREYsA DivisioN TIPSY AERODROME GOSSE LIES LETTERING DETAIL WHICH APPEARS ON BOTH SIDES OF RUDDER NO SCALE ELEVATOR AND. ww STABILIZERIS WOODCONSTRUCTED WITH FABRIC COVERING0D FABRIC COVERED WOOD STRINGERS WING IS OF DOUBLE SPAR CONSTRUCTION WOOD RIBS AND FABRIC COVERED EO TIPS TIPSY JUNIOR LOGO WHICH APPEARS ON BOTH SIDES OF FIN NO SCALE METAL FILLETAILERONS ARE WOOD CONSTRUCTED WITH FABRIC COVERING L LEADING EDGE OF WING IS WOOD COVERED TO FRONT SPAR WITH FABRIC OVERLAY B OIL FILL METAL COWLING COOLING AIR OUTLET RIGHT SIDE COWLING METAL FUEL TANK 13 GAL CAPACITY B ABC -A YQ2JbtbY B C r FUEL GAUGE AND TANK FILL C B A__725~ N IA____ D ~ DRAINB WOOD FUSELAGE SIDES WITH FABRIC OVERLAY AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JUNIOR11 DRAWN INKED JULY1977 BY KENNETH D WILSONAMA 14065 EVANSVILLE INDIAN A KZ AVPRINT K 40 Model Aviation 0 I23456 11111IIII FOR MODEL AVIATION PLATE 2 L YELLOW El BLUE BLACK 7 -10 -1 341/2 -r 1-65 1-4 DO-ULA COLOR SCHEME RESEARCH[v32]NH] CORRESPONDENCE FROM MJP TIPS MANAGER TECHNICAL DEPT AVIONS FAIRE Y S OC T 1955 DRAWING RESEARCH[v32]NH] AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JUNIOR BLUEPRINTS SUPPLIED BY MR DELHAMENDE SALES PR OMOT ION AVIONS FAIREYSAMARCH1961 MR ROBERT J CLEMENS AERONAUTICAL COLLECTION D-0 FABRIC COVERED WOOD STRINGERS METAL FILLET LL5 h-I6H WING IDI/2L 1-1/2 F US E L G E LAYOUT OF REGISTRATION LETTERS ON WING AND FUSELAGE I\I 5- 2 -W W METAL COWLING BB AA V WOOD PROP HAS NATURAL VARNISHED FINISH ___ PERFORMANCES WITH WALTER MIKRON ENGINE 62 hp -MAX SPEED MPH CRUISING SPEED 100 MR H -POWER ON STALL25MPH -POWER OFF STALL PH LANDING SPEED SI MPH -CLIMB -1000 FT/MIN -RANGE 370 MILES REF AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JR BROCHURE K4Z AVPRINT S AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JUNIOR DRAWN INKED JULY 1977 BY KENNETH D WILSONAMA14065 EVANSVILLEINDIANA 0 I23456FOR 11111IIIIMODELAVIATION PLATE 2 2 March 1978 41 V 22 11-1/2
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/03
Page Numbers: 38, 39, 40, 41
The TIPSYJunIor Although designed solo elementary train ing Junior pleasing appearance design lends itself RC CL FF Sport Sport Scale formseven Peanut LIGHT AIRCRAFT creations have al ways caught fancy aviation world due perhaps imaginative yet practical designs Should American designer submit evalua tion prototype light aircraft US Air Force Test Center Edwards AFB California might wonder what en suing result would yet precisely what Ernest 0 Tips confidently subjected Tipsy Junior aircraft England itinerary E0 Tips aeronautical career certainly has proved him great lightplane pioneers spanning back 1908 brother Maurice built flew first airplane canard biplane featured shaft-driven reversible propellers very ad vanced innovation time EO Tips Managing Director Avions Fairey firm organized 1931 Gosselies Belgium primarily engaged production fighter aircraft Royal Belgian Air Force did hinder Tips continuing build light air craft own design 1935 model Tipsy S work genius unequaled day diminu tive all-wood single-place sport aircraft initially powered Douglas 600 engine developing 18 hp maximum due Tips capacity aeronautical de sign 24/2 ft craft achieved top speed 90 mph Tipsy designs attracted much attention England Europe Africa 1935 1940 least seven Considered finest performing small aircraft ever built all-wood aerobatic single-seater developed just after war Avions Fairey Belgium U Kenneth D Wilson different Tipsy models would designed flown some being manufac tured under license England Tipsy Light Aircraft Ltd South Africa Pretoria Light Aircraft Co decided Avions Fairey facility abandoned during mid1940 German Army rapidly ad vancing Belgium Before evacuation six unassembled Tipsy aircraft hidden away discovered Nazis assembled enjoyed invading German Luftwaffe its leisure cessation hostilities Fairey Aviation Company Ltd England parent organization reopened Avions Fairey Gosselies 1946 again E 0 Tips Director Division waste time spite scarcity building materials other handicaps Tips immediately began improved design 1937 Tipsy model BC aircraft tabbed Tipsy Junior Veteran designer Tips known wooden constructed aircraft Tipsy Junior no exception Wood cheaper strong er weight weight steel cannot fatigue production well homebuilding wood takes less tooling jig work forming blocks Tipsy Junior built fun airplane inexpensive recreational fly ing involving great expenditure money time construction basic Tipsy Junior instrument panel layout reflects line engineering its six fundamentals switch dual ignition altimeter metric reading airspeed indica tor tachometer oil pressure gauge slip turn indicator prototype Tipsy Junior registra tion 00-ULA powered Aer 38 Model Aviation simplified Tipsy Junior panel certainly functional left parking brake basic wood frame can seen few details would easy model AMA Scale onca JAP J99 36-hp flat-twin engine Flight characteristics performances good Tips enhanced installation 62-hp Czechoslovak ian Walter Mikron engine streamlined cowling other design improvements Tipsy Junior designed aim mass producing aircraft extremely simple construction further prove airworthiness Junior decided submit 00ULA program qualitative tests maneuverability aerobatics Aeroplane Armament Experimental Establishment Boscombe Down England testing establishment noted getting out product 00-ULA subjected chandelles lazy eights very tight turns spins stalls loops rolls conclusions officail test report indeed very flat tering quote flew aircraft unanimous saying Tipsy Junior very easy pleasure fly no vices considered ideal student pilots flying gain expe rience private pilots license As result tests Tipsy Junior granted Inteinational Certificate Airworthiness Aerobatic Category quite feat aircraft light air craft class during era Although Junior restricted inverted flight due engine fuel starvation did serve dual training programaerobatic trainer normal level-flight training solo student second Tipsy Junior 00-TIT built featuring other refinements such new style wing tip wood fabric craft However Tipsy Junior did reach production time available kit form American home builder negotiations failed American based company went out business Californian interest tried get Japanese build Tipsy Junior power 65-hp Continental en gine Japan still recovering WW II process restoring aviation industry plans did go yond talking stage grand finale Tipsy Junior came F 0 Tips Tipsy Nipper smallest Tipsy lineage aircraft tricycle geared Nipper initial production run 50 aircraft Manufacture Junior shelved As late 1971 00-ULA still existance England flying out Blackbush Airport G-AMVP still Walter Mikron engine However owner plans groom aircraft Formula V racing current popularity allwood homebuilt aircraftwitness nual Experimental Aircraft Association Convention fly-In year Oshkosh Wisconsin aircraft such Fly Baby Volksplanesurely revival Tipsy Junior would complete success March 1978 39 Oodles wing tail area parallel edges simple faired fuselage make subject attractive real ship stressed 5-G load certified Aerobatic Category cockpit winascreen aimosi moo u enty room tank RC CL should oaiipark gas free flight rubber Both fixed moveable surtaces nave pienxy OT area ann Tar models can quickly cut sheet balsa belly fairing terminates interesting manner poses no problem r AVIONS FAIREYsA DivisioN TIPSY AERODROME GOSSE LIES LETTERING DETAIL WHICH APPEARS ON BOTH SIDES OF RUDDER NO SCALE ELEVATOR AND. ww STABILIZERIS WOODCONSTRUCTED WITH FABRIC COVERING0D FABRIC COVERED WOOD STRINGERS WING IS OF DOUBLE SPAR CONSTRUCTION WOOD RIBS AND FABRIC COVERED EO TIPS TIPSY JUNIOR LOGO WHICH APPEARS ON BOTH SIDES OF FIN NO SCALE METAL FILLETAILERONS ARE WOOD CONSTRUCTED WITH FABRIC COVERING L LEADING EDGE OF WING IS WOOD COVERED TO FRONT SPAR WITH FABRIC OVERLAY B OIL FILL METAL COWLING COOLING AIR OUTLET RIGHT SIDE COWLING METAL FUEL TANK 13 GAL CAPACITY B ABC -A YQ2JbtbY B C r FUEL GAUGE AND TANK FILL C B A__725~ N IA____ D ~ DRAINB WOOD FUSELAGE SIDES WITH FABRIC OVERLAY AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JUNIOR11 DRAWN INKED JULY1977 BY KENNETH D WILSONAMA 14065 EVANSVILLE INDIAN A KZ AVPRINT K 40 Model Aviation 0 I23456 11111IIII FOR MODEL AVIATION PLATE 2 L YELLOW El BLUE BLACK 7 -10 -1 341/2 -r 1-65 1-4 DO-ULA COLOR SCHEME RESEARCH[v32]NH] CORRESPONDENCE FROM MJP TIPS MANAGER TECHNICAL DEPT AVIONS FAIRE Y S OC T 1955 DRAWING RESEARCH[v32]NH] AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JUNIOR BLUEPRINTS SUPPLIED BY MR DELHAMENDE SALES PR OMOT ION AVIONS FAIREYSAMARCH1961 MR ROBERT J CLEMENS AERONAUTICAL COLLECTION D-0 FABRIC COVERED WOOD STRINGERS METAL FILLET LL5 h-I6H WING IDI/2L 1-1/2 F US E L G E LAYOUT OF REGISTRATION LETTERS ON WING AND FUSELAGE I\I 5- 2 -W W METAL COWLING BB AA V WOOD PROP HAS NATURAL VARNISHED FINISH ___ PERFORMANCES WITH WALTER MIKRON ENGINE 62 hp -MAX SPEED MPH CRUISING SPEED 100 MR H -POWER ON STALL25MPH -POWER OFF STALL PH LANDING SPEED SI MPH -CLIMB -1000 FT/MIN -RANGE 370 MILES REF AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JR BROCHURE K4Z AVPRINT S AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JUNIOR DRAWN INKED JULY 1977 BY KENNETH D WILSONAMA14065 EVANSVILLEINDIANA 0 I23456FOR 11111IIIIMODELAVIATION PLATE 2 2 March 1978 41 V 22 11-1/2
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/03
Page Numbers: 38, 39, 40, 41
The TIPSYJunIor Although designed solo elementary train ing Junior pleasing appearance design lends itself RC CL FF Sport Sport Scale formseven Peanut LIGHT AIRCRAFT creations have al ways caught fancy aviation world due perhaps imaginative yet practical designs Should American designer submit evalua tion prototype light aircraft US Air Force Test Center Edwards AFB California might wonder what en suing result would yet precisely what Ernest 0 Tips confidently subjected Tipsy Junior aircraft England itinerary E0 Tips aeronautical career certainly has proved him great lightplane pioneers spanning back 1908 brother Maurice built flew first airplane canard biplane featured shaft-driven reversible propellers very ad vanced innovation time EO Tips Managing Director Avions Fairey firm organized 1931 Gosselies Belgium primarily engaged production fighter aircraft Royal Belgian Air Force did hinder Tips continuing build light air craft own design 1935 model Tipsy S work genius unequaled day diminu tive all-wood single-place sport aircraft initially powered Douglas 600 engine developing 18 hp maximum due Tips capacity aeronautical de sign 24/2 ft craft achieved top speed 90 mph Tipsy designs attracted much attention England Europe Africa 1935 1940 least seven Considered finest performing small aircraft ever built all-wood aerobatic single-seater developed just after war Avions Fairey Belgium U Kenneth D Wilson different Tipsy models would designed flown some being manufac tured under license England Tipsy Light Aircraft Ltd South Africa Pretoria Light Aircraft Co decided Avions Fairey facility abandoned during mid1940 German Army rapidly ad vancing Belgium Before evacuation six unassembled Tipsy aircraft hidden away discovered Nazis assembled enjoyed invading German Luftwaffe its leisure cessation hostilities Fairey Aviation Company Ltd England parent organization reopened Avions Fairey Gosselies 1946 again E 0 Tips Director Division waste time spite scarcity building materials other handicaps Tips immediately began improved design 1937 Tipsy model BC aircraft tabbed Tipsy Junior Veteran designer Tips known wooden constructed aircraft Tipsy Junior no exception Wood cheaper strong er weight weight steel cannot fatigue production well homebuilding wood takes less tooling jig work forming blocks Tipsy Junior built fun airplane inexpensive recreational fly ing involving great expenditure money time construction basic Tipsy Junior instrument panel layout reflects line engineering its six fundamentals switch dual ignition altimeter metric reading airspeed indica tor tachometer oil pressure gauge slip turn indicator prototype Tipsy Junior registra tion 00-ULA powered Aer 38 Model Aviation simplified Tipsy Junior panel certainly functional left parking brake basic wood frame can seen few details would easy model AMA Scale onca JAP J99 36-hp flat-twin engine Flight characteristics performances good Tips enhanced installation 62-hp Czechoslovak ian Walter Mikron engine streamlined cowling other design improvements Tipsy Junior designed aim mass producing aircraft extremely simple construction further prove airworthiness Junior decided submit 00ULA program qualitative tests maneuverability aerobatics Aeroplane Armament Experimental Establishment Boscombe Down England testing establishment noted getting out product 00-ULA subjected chandelles lazy eights very tight turns spins stalls loops rolls conclusions officail test report indeed very flat tering quote flew aircraft unanimous saying Tipsy Junior very easy pleasure fly no vices considered ideal student pilots flying gain expe rience private pilots license As result tests Tipsy Junior granted Inteinational Certificate Airworthiness Aerobatic Category quite feat aircraft light air craft class during era Although Junior restricted inverted flight due engine fuel starvation did serve dual training programaerobatic trainer normal level-flight training solo student second Tipsy Junior 00-TIT built featuring other refinements such new style wing tip wood fabric craft However Tipsy Junior did reach production time available kit form American home builder negotiations failed American based company went out business Californian interest tried get Japanese build Tipsy Junior power 65-hp Continental en gine Japan still recovering WW II process restoring aviation industry plans did go yond talking stage grand finale Tipsy Junior came F 0 Tips Tipsy Nipper smallest Tipsy lineage aircraft tricycle geared Nipper initial production run 50 aircraft Manufacture Junior shelved As late 1971 00-ULA still existance England flying out Blackbush Airport G-AMVP still Walter Mikron engine However owner plans groom aircraft Formula V racing current popularity allwood homebuilt aircraftwitness nual Experimental Aircraft Association Convention fly-In year Oshkosh Wisconsin aircraft such Fly Baby Volksplanesurely revival Tipsy Junior would complete success March 1978 39 Oodles wing tail area parallel edges simple faired fuselage make subject attractive real ship stressed 5-G load certified Aerobatic Category cockpit winascreen aimosi moo u enty room tank RC CL should oaiipark gas free flight rubber Both fixed moveable surtaces nave pienxy OT area ann Tar models can quickly cut sheet balsa belly fairing terminates interesting manner poses no problem r AVIONS FAIREYsA DivisioN TIPSY AERODROME GOSSE LIES LETTERING DETAIL WHICH APPEARS ON BOTH SIDES OF RUDDER NO SCALE ELEVATOR AND. ww STABILIZERIS WOODCONSTRUCTED WITH FABRIC COVERING0D FABRIC COVERED WOOD STRINGERS WING IS OF DOUBLE SPAR CONSTRUCTION WOOD RIBS AND FABRIC COVERED EO TIPS TIPSY JUNIOR LOGO WHICH APPEARS ON BOTH SIDES OF FIN NO SCALE METAL FILLETAILERONS ARE WOOD CONSTRUCTED WITH FABRIC COVERING L LEADING EDGE OF WING IS WOOD COVERED TO FRONT SPAR WITH FABRIC OVERLAY B OIL FILL METAL COWLING COOLING AIR OUTLET RIGHT SIDE COWLING METAL FUEL TANK 13 GAL CAPACITY B ABC -A YQ2JbtbY B C r FUEL GAUGE AND TANK FILL C B A__725~ N IA____ D ~ DRAINB WOOD FUSELAGE SIDES WITH FABRIC OVERLAY AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JUNIOR11 DRAWN INKED JULY1977 BY KENNETH D WILSONAMA 14065 EVANSVILLE INDIAN A KZ AVPRINT K 40 Model Aviation 0 I23456 11111IIII FOR MODEL AVIATION PLATE 2 L YELLOW El BLUE BLACK 7 -10 -1 341/2 -r 1-65 1-4 DO-ULA COLOR SCHEME RESEARCH[v32]NH] CORRESPONDENCE FROM MJP TIPS MANAGER TECHNICAL DEPT AVIONS FAIRE Y S OC T 1955 DRAWING RESEARCH[v32]NH] AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JUNIOR BLUEPRINTS SUPPLIED BY MR DELHAMENDE SALES PR OMOT ION AVIONS FAIREYSAMARCH1961 MR ROBERT J CLEMENS AERONAUTICAL COLLECTION D-0 FABRIC COVERED WOOD STRINGERS METAL FILLET LL5 h-I6H WING IDI/2L 1-1/2 F US E L G E LAYOUT OF REGISTRATION LETTERS ON WING AND FUSELAGE I\I 5- 2 -W W METAL COWLING BB AA V WOOD PROP HAS NATURAL VARNISHED FINISH ___ PERFORMANCES WITH WALTER MIKRON ENGINE 62 hp -MAX SPEED MPH CRUISING SPEED 100 MR H -POWER ON STALL25MPH -POWER OFF STALL PH LANDING SPEED SI MPH -CLIMB -1000 FT/MIN -RANGE 370 MILES REF AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JR BROCHURE K4Z AVPRINT S AVIONS FAIREY TIPSY JUNIOR DRAWN INKED JULY 1977 BY KENNETH D WILSONAMA14065 EVANSVILLEINDIANA 0 I23456FOR 11111IIIIMODELAVIATION PLATE 2 2 March 1978 41 V 22 11-1/2