The Tipsy B was a small sports two-seat monoplane designed by Ernest Oscar Tips, and built in both Belgium and the UK.

Stressed plywood skin was used from the main spar forward, with the rest of the wing fabric covered over wooden ribs.

[3] The Tipsy Bc had the same seat arrangement, but enclosed under a Rhodoid (cellulose acetate) canopy, faired into the fuselage rearwards by a much deeper decking.

[1] Some Tipsy Bs had an asymmetric windscreen formed out of a single Rhodoid sheet, with its free edge further forward on the left to match the displaced seating,[3] but symmetrical screens became common.

[4] A 60 hp (45 kW) Walter Mikron four cylinder inverted in-line engine drove a two-bladed propeller.

[1] The fabric covered rudder was rounded, and moved between the separate elevators, which with the tail plane formed an elliptical shape.

[6] In total, twenty-four Tipsy B and Bc aircraft were built at Avions Fairey before the invasion of Belgium by Germany in World War II.

The elevator was also revised to a single unit with a straight hinge and trailing edge, and the bottom of the rudder slightly cropped to allow it to move.

Subsequent British Tipsys included these changes, and from the sixth aircraft onwards also featured fixed letter box slots.

The ninth aircraft was approved at an increased all up-weight of 1,200 lb (544 kg), and from then on the name was revised to Tipsy Trainer 1.

[7][8] The Avions Fairey-built aircraft flew with private owners and club in Belgium, the UK, Sweden, France and Switzerland.