Which Tipsy Belfair is this?

I did some instructing with G-AFJR in the early 1960’s while it was owned by Tony Southerland, then chairman of the McAully Flying Group in Norfolk. It was based at Little Snoring or on Tony’s strip at Burnham Thorpe. Lovely aeroplane and a great performance with its 65 horsepower Walter Mikron engine.

Cheers,

Reaper 69
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Again, thank you for the returns on this. It is amazing what there is out there.

John

G-AFJR was the second British-built Tipsy B to be produced at the Hanworth factory in 1938.

It differed from the later Tipsy Trainers by having a slimmer wing section and no leading edge slats. It flew faster but had distinctly ‘sporting’ stalling characteristics!

It was subsequently rebuilt in 1958 at Sherburn in Elmet to closed cockpit Belfair spec, alongside G-AOXO, G-APOD and the now sole flying survivor G-APIE.

It is now being restored for static display at the Brussels Air Museum.

Loads more info and photos at Willem Ronge’s excellent website: http://www.tipsy-histories.com/

Excellent. Thank you.

John

John

A Google of ‘tipsy belfair g-afjr’ comes up with a site showing JR in a mid-blue scheme. No indication of when this photo was taken, but it still has the race no. 46.

Peter

Thank you for the replies, I suspected it might be JR. I have had the photo for many years and I don’t recall where or when it was taken. The British Racing Putnam is one of the few I am missing. What colour was it. Anyone?

John

Was the photo taken at Baginton?

John

British Racing and Record-Breaking Aircraft (Putnam) has a photo of this aircraft on page 399. Caption is as follows –

‘G-AFJR, the Tipsy Belfair B flown by J. Hill to win the Osram Cup for 1958 at Baginton at 109.5 mph’.

Hope this helps

Peter