Inter-Wars

Tipsy

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Tipsy Aircraft Company Ltd.

Belgium
Formed in late 1930s together with Tipsy Aircraft Company Ltd in U.K. to build ultralight aircraft designed by E. O.Tips and previously manufactured by Avions Fairey.

Tipsy Aircraft Company Ltd. was formed 1937 at Hanworth Air Park. Middlesex, to license build Anglo-Belgian lightplanes of E. 0. Tips. Continued production postwar but closed down in 1952.

Pre-war products at Gosselies were single-seat S2 and two-seat B or B-2 (open cockpits) and BC (enclosed cabin). B-2 revived post-war as Tipsy Trainer, and BC as Belfair (from Belgian Fairey), together with new design of Junior in 1946 and Nipper in 1957. Production of Nipper taken over by Cobelavia in 1961, and by Nipper Aircraft Ltd in 1966.

Timm M-150

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Timm M-150 NC279V

The M-150 Collegiate NX/NC279V of 1930 (2-239) was similar to the K-100, but with a 150hp McClatchie Panther engine. As City of Los Angeles, The M-160 set an endurance record of 378h:48m in flying the equivalent of 27,677 miles over Rosamond Dry Lake CA in 1930.

Timm M-150 City of Los Angeles NC279V

Engine: 150hp McClatchie Panther
Useful load: 706 lb
Max speed: 118 mph
Stall: 35 mph
Range: 500 mi

Timm K-90 Collegiate / K-100 Collegiate

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Timm K-100

The K-90 Collegiate (ATC 180) built in 1928 was O W Timm’s first company and first commercial plane. The prototype NX/NC887E c/n 102, was initially powered by a 90hp Anzani.

The K-100 had a 130hp Comet [C337] c/n 101.

One each of the K-90 and K-100 were built, priced at $5,500.

K-90 Collegiate
Engine: 90hp Anzani

K-100 Collegiate
Engine: 100hp Kinner K-5
Wingspan: 35’0″
Length: 24’7″
Useful load: 643 lb
Max speed: 108 mph
Cruise speed: 92 mph
Stall: 35 mph
Range: 600 mi
Seats: 2

Timm Curtiss Pusher

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One replica Curtiss, N3378 c/n 99, was built by Timm at his home in Eagle Rock, California, in 1927 for Al Wilson, who was killed in this ship at the 1932 Nationals when he lost control in the downwash of an autogyro.

A second, similar pusher was built in 1935 for Paul Mantz for use in the film, “West Point of the Air.”

Engine: 90hp Curtiss OX-5
Seats: 1