Ernest Oscar Tips
Ernest Oscar Tips (born October 2, 1893 in Tielrode in the province of East Flanders , † March 10, 1978 in Brussels ) was a Belgian engineer and aircraft designer.
Life
Ernest Oscar was the youngest of 13 children in the Tips family. After the death of his father, he began studying in Brussels at the age of 14 and, together with his brother Maurice, 20 years older than him, built airplanes in a small workshop from 1908. After moving several times, he returned to Brussels after the end of the Second World War , where he died in March 1978.
Act
His first Canard machine, built together with his brother, flew for the first time in 1909 at the Antwerp Air Show. The brothers also decided to build their own engines. These were presented on January 22, 1913 at the 14th “Salon de l'Automobile” in Paris . The Belgian Minerva took over the engines for their automobile construction, and the brothers were able to continue their own aircraft construction with the license income.
Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War , Ernest Tips left Belgium in 1914 and moved to England. There he began building their own aircraft together with Charles Richard Fairey in the Fairey Aviation Company . On May 6, 1918, he received the English pilot license N ° RAC-UK 5904. In 1931 Tips returned to Belgium and opened the Belgian subsidiary of the Fairey Aviation Company on Gosselies Aerodrome, which is now Brussels-Charleroi Airport , which opened in 1919 . On May 10, 1940, the factory in Gosselies was badly damaged by bombs from the German Air Force. Tips then loaded the machines and tools and moved back to England with the plans and documents. There he was appointed chief engineer and managing director of Burtonwood Depot Repair by the Ministry of Aircraft Production. From 1943 he took over at Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd. the helicopter development department in Hayes as chief engineer. After the end of the war, he rebuilt the destroyed factory in Belgium and took over maintenance contracts for Air Force aircraft and, in cooperation with SABCA , also the assembly of the 104G F and F 16.
In parallel with these military assignments, Ernest Oscaripps continued to work on the development of his light aircraft. The Tipsy Belfair was his first post-war production. With this aircraft, Ernest Oscar Tips became the holder of the world distance record for aircraft weighing less than 500 kg. In 1946 he started producing the Tipsy Junior . 1957 followed the Tipsy Nipper , a small single-seater monoplane. In the same year he received a contract for the revision of the F84F fighter-bomber . Tips retired in March 1960.
Honors
In 1971 a special postage stamp was printed with the first airplane designed by brothers Maurice and Ernest Oscar Tips in 1908. The postage stamp worth 10 Belgian francs went on sale on May 19 and 20, 1973.
Planes
The well-known light aircraft that Ernest Oscar Tips constructed were:
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tips, Ernest Oscar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian engineer and aircraft designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tielrode , East Flanders Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1978 |
| Place of death | Brussels |