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1947
1947 - 1115.PDF
The supercharged Type 4B engine (240 h.p. for take-off) displayed by Marcel Dassault. (Right) Mr. Tips with his latest creation, the Junior, which is offered complete or as a constructional kit. The Salon TTSUALLY, at a Continental aeronautical Salon, one ^ has to tramp several kilometres and study a sheaf of brochures before deciding what can most fairly be described as the piece or clou. This year, at the third Brussels Show in the Palais du Cinquantenaire, one is spared the trouble, for on the stand of A.C.A., Belgian agents for Cessna, is a prominent sign to this effect: "Le clou du Saloni lei! Faites-vous photographier en avion! La serie 100 francs." For this modest outlay one gets a priceless pictorial record of the occasion when one took the controls of a shining Cessna 140, fresh over from America. Whatever its commercial object, this placard does giv%, as it were, a clue to the theme of the show, which is the "vulgarization" of flying. Except for the Cunliffe-Owen Concordia mock-up, two military trainers and some gliders, all the aircraft on view are in the private-owner class, and it is these which will receive first consideration. A Tiny Tipsy On entering the Salon it is fitting that one should be confronted with the only really new type displayed which happily enough is a Tipsy. Christened "Junior," this angular, but not unsightly, little single-seater is offered for 80,000 francs complete, or can be bought for 40,000- 45,000 francs, without engine, as what the model makers would call a constructional kit. The prototype Junior made its first flight only a few days ago, but inside thirty minutes, Mr. Tips tell us, it showed good stability charac- Upptr left, the Praga E.2II pusher. upper right the well-presented frcoupe ; below, left, the Zlin 22, and lastly the Tipsy Belfair with the latest cabin enclosure.
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