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Title: New "old" plane
Post by: FLOYD CARTER on September 29, 2010, 12:20:33 PM

Back in a corner of my shop I found this plane, built back in the mid 90's.  It's a semi-scale TIPSY JR., a lightplane from Belgium in the 1930's.  The plans were drawn up from Tom Morris' Old Time Stunt book. I'm fixing it up to fly again with an OS35 FP.

Floyd

Title: Re: New "old" plane
Post by: Jimmy R. Jacobs on September 29, 2010, 12:54:22 PM

  Nice. very nice, looks like a good one


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Title: Re: New "old" plane
Post by: Tim Wescott on September 29, 2010, 03:25:46 PM

Post-war, actually, but it sure has a 30's look about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipsy_Junior

Title: Re: New "old" plane
Post by: Jim Thomerson on October 01, 2010, 12:38:47 PM

The plans were published in Air Trails.  I have a set of the full size plans.  There was scaled up 1 1/2 size version with Forester 29 documented in a later (1950?) Air Trails.  We scaled up the plans. Bob Lipscomb had his at the VSC last year.  I have the wing and tail surfaces finished for mine.  I'm going to use a Tower 40.

There was also an OTS legal version published in Aeromodeller, available in three different sizes.