Ernest Oscar Tips

Ernest Oscar Tips (born 2 October 1893 in Tielrode, died 10 March 1978 in Brussels) was a Belgian aircraft designer, who co-founded the Fairey Aviation Company in 1915 and its Belgian subsidiary Avions Fairey in 1931.

Biography

Early days The Tips brothers introducing the valve-less motors at the 1913 Salon de l'Automobile. Born in Tielrode near Temse in 1893, the youngest of 13 children. His family was active in building mechanical systems such as bicycles. He studied at the Institut St Willebrord, but moved to Brussels at 14 years old to live with his brother after his father had died.

He gained British pilot's license RAC-UK 5904 on May 6, 1918. ) when its UK headquarters sold 25 Firefly II to the Belgian army.