this competition was issued for two-seat basic trainer aircraft, the specification T1/37,the rivals were:
Miles M-15,General aircraft GAL.32,Parnall-382,Percival P.20,Airspeed AS.36,Heston JA.3 & JA.6 and
De Havilland DH-96.
this competition was issued for two-seat basic trainer aircraft, the specification T1/37,the rivals were:
Miles M-15,General aircraft GAL.32,Parnall-382,Percival P.20,Airspeed AS.36,Heston JA.3 & JA.6 and
De Havilland DH-96.
The Tipsy M/Fairey Primer (first flight 1938)? Although it seems to have emerged rather late in the day to be considered a T1/37 specification contender. Post-war it was revived and tested against the Chipmunk but, not surprisingly, it was unsuccessful.
The Tipsy M/Fairey Primer (first flight 1938)? Although it seems to have emerged rather late in the day to be considered a T1/37 specification contender. Post-war it was revived and tested against the Chipmunk but, not surprisingly, it was unsuccessful.
The Tipsy M/Fairey Primer (first flight 1938)? Although it seems to have emerged rather late in the day to be considered a T1/37 specification contender. Post-war it was revived and tested against the Chipmunk but, not surprisingly, it was unsuccessful.
"The origins of this aircraft went back to the l938—39 period when Avions
Fairey designed and built the prototype, OO-POM, known as the Tipsy M, to
take part in a competition for ab initio trainers in Belgium.
The story, as recounted in 1948, was that after the war had broken out in
September 1939, but before the German invasion of the Low Countries in 1940,
OO-POM was dismantled and shipped secretly to England, where it was
re-assembled by Fairey.
If this dating is correct, then it was not the first appearance of the
Tipsy M in England. There are records to show that OO-POM was flown by
Fairey test pilots in June 1939. Certainly, however, the Tipsy M was flying on
test, as F.O222, from the Great West aerodrome between November 1940 and
May 1941, and was later used, at least until September I941, as a company
communications aircraft before being dismantled and stored.
As soon as it was possible to do so after the end of the war, O0-POM was
returned to Avions Fairey for minor modifcations on a basis of recommen-
dations by the parent company. These changes were duly made at Gosselies
and the prototype was taken over in 1947 by Fairey in England with the
intention of offering it for construction under licence.
Registered G-AKSX in February 1948, the Primary Trainer was test-?own
as G-6-1. It was assessed by A & AEE pilots at Boscombe Down before
being dismantled at Hayes so that production drawings could be made and
simple jigs designed; all the drawings and calculations had been deliberately
destroyed at Gosselies in 1940.
Some parts of the prototype, as well as the engine, were used for the first
production aircraft to be built at Hamble. This, G-ALBL/G-6-4 (F.8455), by
then named the Fairey Primer, was certificated on 22 October, 1948, and was
dismantled during the following year. The second aircraft, G-ALEW/G-6-5
(R8456), was ftted with a 155 hp Blackburn Cirrus Major 3 engine and was
evaluated at Boscombe Down against the de Havilland Canada Chipmunk.
This Primer was dismantled in 1951. No others were built."
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