Tipsy site

Yes I’m still searching to find their civil registrations.
The German pilots flew them in their free time

Loved those Luftwaffe-painted ones on the site 🙂

That’d be why I’ve not seen it at our last couple of dos.

He sold it some months ago, the new owner is Mr. Bryan Diggins.

That’s the one… I wasn’t aware only the tail was Nipper. I was led to believe form other sources the fuselage was. Nice man Mr. Piper he’s flown in to a couple of VAC events. Perhaps I should have asked him on the day 🙂

yes Arm Waver, I know the Metisse.

Actually its not a Nipper fuselage, only the tailplane comes from a Nipper (c/n 11 now G-BWCT) the rest was build by the designer Cliff Piper.

I have a soft spot for the Tipsy Trainer because when I was a kid my father used to regularly inspect the one owned by the Cardiff Ultra Light Flying Club (G-AFJS). We lived at Rhoose and every Friday he would travel to Cardiff Pengam Moors on the train with myself and my mother in order to inspect the Tipsy and also a Hornet Moth (G-ADMT). He got paid 10 shillings which just covered the cost of the train fare for the three of us and a bar of chocolate on the way home! He didn’t want to charge any more because they ere all so friendly and obviously couldn’t afford the going rate at that time!

I remember being offered a flight in the Tipsy but for some reason I turned it down (I was only 8 at the time!). I have always regretted not taking that flight!

Mr. Tipsy – are you aware of the design with a Niper fuselage and a low wing. IIRC it is the Metisses CP.1 The UK one is G-BVCP.

BM I guessed the man in the jumper was your father. 🙂

Very nice pictures Blue Max thank you

Theone in front of the Trident with the young lady is my father (Typical!) Barry is in the Running A/C. Got more from that SBAC Show somewhere, it was the year the German Airforce Atlantic crashed!

Really nice site that.

Blue Max – Barry appears to have been a master of disguise. – No sign of the beard which would’ve clashed with that uniform anyway… 😀
Love the pictures.

Thought you might like these, talken in 1968, i think!, at The SBAC Show at Farnborough. My Father and Barry Tempest (the forums very own Skybolt) where flying the A/C for demo’s for the manufacture.

Excellent site – well done