Avions Fairey Junior

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name=Junior


caption=Avions Fairey Junior, flying scale model built by Donald Granlund
type=Sports plane
manufacturer=Avions Fairey
designer=Ernest Tips
first flight=30 June 1947
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number built=2
variants with their own articles=The Avions Fairey Junior, also known as the Tipsy Junior after its designer, Ernest Tips, was a single-seat light aircraft built in Belgium following World War II. It was a conventional, low-wing monoplane with tailwheel undercarriage and an enclosed cockpit. The aircraft did not sell, and the third airframe was cancelled whilst still under construction.

The first Junior was written off after a hard landing in 1948, but the second example (construction number J.111, registration "OO-ULA") was bought by Avions Fairey's British parent company and taken to England the same year. In 1957, it was used in a publicity stunt when Fairey test pilot Peter Twiss landed it on the aircraft carrier HMS "Ark Royal". As of 2006, the aircraft was being restored to flying condition in the UK (as "G-AMVP"), having been rebuilt after a long time in storage following a hard landing in 1993. The third airframe, purchased incomplete by Fairey in 1961, has heen under construction in the hands of a number of owners in the intervening years but never actually finished.

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crew=one pilot
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length m=5.65
length ft=18
length in=6
span m=6.90
span ft=22
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height m=1.48
height ft=4
height in=10
wing area sqm=10.5
wing area sqft=113
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empty weight kg=130
empty weight lb=290
gross weight kg=250
gross weight lb=550

eng1 number=1
eng1 type=Walter Mikron II inverted inline engine
eng1 kw= 46
eng1 hp= 62
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max speed kmh=180
max speed mph=110
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range km=690
range miles=430
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ceiling m=1,800
ceiling ft=6,000
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References

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* [http://www.tipsy-histories.com/site/junior.htm The Ultimate Tipsy Site]

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