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    Henri Mignet (19 October 1893 – 31 August 1965) was a French radio engineer who became well known as an aircraft designer and builder. His most famous...
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    designed by Mignet and others.[citation needed] The Flying Flea family of aircraft was designed by Frenchman Henri Mignet. Between 1920 and 1928, Mignet built...
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    known as Flying Fleas. The HM.14 was designed by French radio engineer Henri Mignet. It was the result of his ambition to design a safe aeroplane that could...
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    Camus, Calmann-Levy, p. 139. Mignet, François (1824), History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Sanson, Henri (12 March 1876). "Memoirs of the...
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    first 1923 design were some of the first homebuilt aircraft. In 1928, Henri Mignet published plans for his HM-8 Pou-du-Ciel, as did Pietenpol for his Air...
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    design proved practical and some 52 examples were produced. Meanwhile Henri Mignet was taking a very different approach to flight control. Intended for...
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    L'Air produced by Henri Mignet about his HM.8 Avionette monoplane. In early 1930, Appleby travelled to Paris, and sought out Mignet for advice;, that...
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    of Kentucky in Lexington Kentucky.[citation needed] In 1933 Frenchman Henri Mignet designed the HM.14 "Pou du Ciel" ("Flying Flea"). He envisioned a simple...
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    Schneider, Francis Chardon, Willi Pelzner, and Hans Richter while engineer Henri Mignet was busy in France and Czesław Tański was busy in Poland. In 1904 Jan...
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    Marks became director of the United States Information Agency. Died: Henri Mignet, 71, French aircraft designer "Reports China Ready for War Against U...
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    Ashingdon as a home base, way point or destination. Henri Mignet, the French designer of the Mignet HM.14 Pou du Ciel ("Flying Flea") used to visit Ashingdon...
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  • Amateur-Built Aircraft: The Phoenix Diploma The Phoenix Group Diploma The Henri Mignet Diploma The FAI Young Artists Contest is an international painting competition...
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    The original design, the Pouchel, was based upon the 1930s Henri Mignet-designed Mignet Pou-du-Ciel (Flying Flea), but constructed using three commercial...
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  • Midwest Engineering & Design, Overland Park, Kansas, United States Mignet, Henri Mignet – France Mikoyan, Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Promyshlennyi Kompleks MiG...
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    was inspired by a demonstration by Henri Mignet of his Mignet HM.14 Pou-du-Ciel ("Flying Flea"). Using only Mignet's book, Wallis gathered the materials...
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    is a homebuilt triplane variant of the French-designed Mignet Flea licensed by American Mignet Aircraft, and later Universal Aircraft company of Ft Worth...
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  • 8 Mignet HM.14 Mignet HM.16 Pou-Bébé (Baby Pou) Mignet HM.18 Mignet HM.19 Mignet HM.210 Mignet HM.280 Pou-Maquis Mignet HM.283 Mignet HM.290 Mignet HM...
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  • States) MIDWEST AEROSPORT – Midwest Aerosport Inc (United States) MIGNETHenri Mignet (France) MIKOYAN – Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Promyshlennyi Kompleks MiG...
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    ultralight aircraft developed in France in the 1960s. It was inspired by Henri Mignet's Pou-du-Ciel design with its distinctive tandem wing layout. Croses set...
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  • designed by Henri Mignet HM.293 Flying Flea Light aircraft designed by Henri Mignet HM.360 Flying Flea Light aircraft designed by Henri Mignet HM.380 Flying...
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  • communicate by radio with two aircraft at the same time. In August Henri Mignet flew his Mignet HM.14 "Flying Flea" across the Channel to Lympne, where the aircraft...
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  • took part, with a £100 prize at stake. An eighth aircraft was flown by Henri Mignet, who performed various aerobatics. The aircraft bore the inscription...
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    ultralight aircraft based on the formula, principles and writings of Henri Mignet. The core of the construction employed commercial aluminium ladders in...
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  • 19 August – René Lasserre, rugby union player (born 1895) 31 August – Henri Mignet, aircraft designer and builder (born 1893) 2 September – Émile Muselier...
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    The Pouchel series are all derivatives of the classic 1930s Henri Mignet-designed Mignet Pou-du-Ciel (Flying Flea). The Pouchelec features a cantilever...
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  • Germain (1874–1939), painter Victor Leydet (1845–1908), politician François Mignet (1796–1884), historian Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), composer. Sextius Alexandre...
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  • sketches in 1927. The vehicle was inspired by the French designs of Henri Mignet and his Flying Flea. The prototype was completed in 1934. The finished...
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  • APEV Pouchel, which is itself a derivative of the classic 1930s Henri Mignet-designed Mignet Pou-du-Ciel (Flying Flea). The design features a cantilever rear...
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    Wings. Aeroplane Monthly. March 1982 Ellis, Ken; Jones, Geoff. 1990. Henri Mignet and his Flying Fleas. Haynes Publishing ISBN 0-85429-765-0 Jackson, A...
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  • MS 2 Miecyslaw Siegel MS 3 Miecyslaw Siegel MS 8 (Henri Mignet) Mignet HM-1-1 Mignet HM-1-2 Mignet HM-5 Planeur brouette Mikhaïlovgrad Perles – Михайловград...
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