The Tipsy S.2 was the production version of the Tipsy S, a single-seat low-wing sports monoplane designed by Ernest Oscar Tips in Belgium in the mid-1930s while he managed Avions Fairey, the Belgian subsidiary of the Fairey Aviation Company. The Tipsy S prototype, registered OO-TIP, first flew on 11 May 1935 at the Avions Fairey field at Gosselies. The airframe was wooden, covered in plywood and canvas, with an elliptical wing and differential ailerons, and it flew on a series of very small engines of no more than about 40 horsepower, most Belgian-built aircraft using the 32 horsepower Sarolea Epervier flat twin. Nineteen were built in Belgium and several were exported, while a British licence builder started nine and finished six. Only four survived the Second World War, and two of those are now static museum exhibits, one in Sweden and one in Brussels.
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It was built in Belgium by Avions Fairey and under licence in the UK by Aero Engines Ltd of Bristol.
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The Tipsy S.2 was the production version of the Tipsy S, a single seat, low wing sports monoplane designed by Ernest Oscar Tips in Belgium in the mid-1930s.
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making its first flight on 11 May 1935 at the Avions Fairey field at Gosselies
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The Tipsy S.2 was the production version of the Tipsy S, a single seat, low wing sports monoplane designed by Ernest Oscar Tips in Belgium in the mid-1930s.
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Only four survived the war and probably only two of these flew again.
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Sarolea Epervier (eng: Sparrowhawk) in Belgian-built machines
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It was built in Belgium by Avions Fairey and under licence in the UK by Aero Engines Ltd of Bristol.
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It was built in Belgium by Avions Fairey and under licence in the UK by Aero Engines Ltd of Bristol.
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The Tipsy S.2 was the production version of the Tipsy S, a single seat, low wing sports monoplane designed by Ernest Oscar Tips in Belgium in the mid-1930s.
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The Tipsy S.2 was the production version of the Tipsy S, a single seat, low wing sports monoplane designed by Ernest Oscar Tips in Belgium in the mid-1930s.
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