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Remarks by Walter van Tilborg: "Constructed by Ernest Tips of Gosselies, Belgium and flown March 1939, subsequently all design material, including drawings, were lost during the war. On February 24, 1948 it was sold to Fairey Aviation (UK) as G-AKSX (not taken up). Flew briefly registered as G-6-1, the original de Havilland Gipsy Major replaced by the stronger 145 hp de Havilland Gipsy Major 10. Later it was fitted with a 155 hp Blackburn Cirrus Major 3. Finally it was dismantled March 1948 and used as pattern aircraft for the Fairey Primer.

The Primer was a fraction longer, a lowered fuselage behind the canopy, a modified tail and a higher mounted tail plane. Two were constructed fitted with the Blackburn engine and evaluated against the de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk."


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Remarks by Walter van Tilborg: "Constructed by Ernest Tips of Gosselies, Belgium and flown March 1939, subsequently all design material, including drawings, were lost during the war. On February 24, 1948 it was sold to Fairey Aviation (UK) as G-AKSX (not taken up). Flew briefly registered as G-6-1, the original de Havilland Gipsy Major replaced by the stronger 145 hp de Havilland Gipsy Major 10. Later it was fitted with a 155 hp Blackburn Cirrus Major 3. Finally it was dismantled March 1948 and used as pattern aircraft for the Fairey Primer. The Primer was a fraction longer, a lowered fuselage behind the canopy, a modified tail and a higher mounted tail plane. Two were constructed fitted with the Blackburn engine and evaluated against the de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk."