Tipsy Junior (oz16920)
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Tipsy Junior. Free flight profile scale model for rubber power. Wingspan 16 in.
Quote: "Profile Tipsy Junior, by AA Lidberg.
Nocal scale airplanes are quick-building, easy to trim and fly, and look good too. The Tipsy Junior was considered one of the finest-performing small aircraft ever built; the model flies good too.
There is a place in our hobby for the kind of a model project that can be completed in just a few hours. I'm not talking about a super-prefab, ready-to-fly kit, but rather a simple model that can be built from a few scraps of balsa. Now, if this basically low cost model turns out to look pretty good and fly even better, the return on your investment of building time is really great. This wordy introduction leads us to a little known class of model, called Nocal scale.
Nocals need only to be recognizable models, rubber powered and limited to a 16-inch span. Building a scale model as a profile really saves time, material and weight, helping to produce a good flying, very simple model. The Tipsy is the latest in a series of Nocals that my son Chris and I have been developing. We've concentrated on models that could be built without wheels (ie retracted) for lightness, but when we found the Tipsy 3-view, we quickly made an exception. Lightweight balsa wheels don't seem to adversely affect its flying ability and they allow ROGs for fun flying. In yellow tissue with black markings and blue trim, OO-ULA is a colorful model, too... "
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Update 6/8/2026: Added alternate article (page 2) scan, thanks to AlexanderWeber.
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(oz16920)
Tipsy Junior
by Al Lidberg
from Model Builder
March 1986
16in span
Scale Rubber F/F LowWing
clean :)
all formers complete :)
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Submitted: 22/07/2026
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Hi there,the second page of the article looks scrambled to me.
Cheers
Alex - 06/08/2026
Looks fine to me
pmw - 06/08/2026
Hmmm. It fails for me, here. I'm using free Acrobat Reader on a Win 10 PC. I get the error: "Insufficient data for an image" when I try to view page 2.
SteveWMD - 06/08/2026
Curious. Which PDF reader are you using?
SteveWMD - 06/08/2026
Meanwhile, have uploaded an alternate scan of page 2 for now, thanks to Alexander.
SteveWMD - 06/08/2026
Many thanks for pp2. But the article is still incomplete! There is more, beyond that!
D A - 06/08/2026
Doh. My mistake. Hang on. Ok, fixed now, includes all the missing text.
SteveWMD - 06/08/2026
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