The Flying Flea (French: Pou du Ciel, lit. 'Louse of the Sky') is a large family of light homebuilt aircraft first flown in 1933. The odd name comes from...
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Mignet HM.14 (redirect from Mignet HM-14 Pou du Ciel)
The Mignet HM.14 Flying Flea (Pou du Ciel literally "Louse of the Sky" in French) is a single-seat light aircraft first flown in 1933, designed for amateur...
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Henri Mignet (section The HM.14 Pou du Ciel)
of his Mignet Pou-du-Ciel (Flying Flea) designs. In 1934, he published Le Sport de l'Air and playfully called the aircraft Pou du Ciel (literally "Louse...
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approach to flight control. Intended for amateurs to build at home, his Pou-du-Ciel (flying flea) had a novel two-axis control system to make it easy to...
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Baynes Cantilever Pou, which Baynes designed to address some of the aerodynamic problems of the original Mignet HM.14 Pou du Ciel. A series of fatal...
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largest producers and developers of the Pou du Ciel. Aero 8's higher-powered and modified version was called "Super Pou". Several air shows took place in Ashingdon...
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a small tandem-wing, side-by-side seat sport aircraft of the Mignet Pou-du-Ciel type. Built in the mid 1970s, the single example remains active. In the...
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[citation needed] In 1933 Frenchman Henri Mignet designed the HM.14 "Pou du Ciel" ("Flying Flea"). He envisioned a simple aircraft that amateurs could...
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Ultracruiser Plus JDT Hi-MAX JPM 01 Médoc Junqua Ibis Just Superstol Mignet Pou-du-Ciel Mini-Hawk Tiger-Hawk JDT V-MAX Kolb M3X Leger Pataplume 1 Light Miniature...
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1912 – 1984) was an English pilot and a leading proponent of the Mignet Pou-du-Ciel "Flying Flea" aircraft. Stephen Appleby was born in London on 9 February...
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example to be made in any quantity was the French tandem-wing Mignet Pou du Ciel (Flying Flea), which became briefly popular during the 1930s. It had...
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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 out to develop...
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The Piel CP-10 was a post-war French sports aircraft in the Pou du Ciel tradition and was the first design from Claude Piel to fly. The CP-10 Pinocchio...
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engine, developing less than 15 hp. Controls were similar to Mignet Pou-du-Ciel designs, with a pivoting front wing and rudder, both operated by the...
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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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McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet Mignet HM.14 Pou du Ciel La Cucaracha Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F-13 Mitchell...
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are all derivatives of the classic 1930s Henri Mignet-designed Mignet Pou-du-Ciel (Flying Flea). The Pouchel Light features a cantilever rear wing with...
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D113-D11 Jodel DR1050 Excellence Luscombe 8F, LSA-8 Malmö MFI-9 Mignet Pou-du-Ciel Miller-Bohannon JM-2 Pushy Galore Miller JM-2 Nexaer LS1 Piper PA-11...
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triplane variant. Following the craze for the homebuilt tandem-wing Mignet Pou du Ciel (Flying Flea), a triplane variant, the American Flea, was produced in...
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The Wright Brothers' early aircraft were of the canard type; Mignet Pou-du-Ciel and Rutan Quickie are of tandem type. Some early three surface aircraft...
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are all derivatives of the classic 1930s Henri Mignet-designed Mignet Pou-du-Ciel (Flying Flea). The Pouchelec features a cantilever rear wing with a strut-braced...
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homebuilt aircraft. In 1928, Henri Mignet published plans for his HM-8 Pou-du-Ciel, as did Pietenpol for his Air Camper. Pietenpol later constructed a factory...
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itself a derivative of the classic 1930s Henri Mignet-designed Mignet Pou-du-Ciel (Flying Flea). The design features a cantilever rear wing and a strut-braced...
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1980s. The Pou-Push was, as its name suggests, in the tandem wing tradition begun in France before World War II by the Mignet Pou-du-Ciel, with the larger...
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Replica Blackburn Mercury – Replica Cayley Glider – Replica Mignet HM.14 Pou-du-Ciel Port Victoria P.V.8 Eastchurch Kitten Replica Royal Aircraft Factory...
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it contains a CAC Wirraway, an Ikara anti-submarine missile, a Mignet Pou-du-Ciel, a MacFarlane (Mac Wonder), an Iskra, a PZL TS-11 Iskra and a Walter...
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are all derivatives of the classic 1930s Henri Mignet-designed Mignet Pou-du-Ciel (Flying Flea). The Pouchel II features a cantilever rear wing with a...
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Landray GL.02 (redirect from Landray GL.02 Ami Pou)
a very simple, small, low-powered tandem wing aircraft in the Mignet Pou-du-Ciel style. This was reflected in its name, which also referred to the source...
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Il-28R Martinsyde F.4 Buzzard Bf 109G-6Y 167271 - MT-507 Mignet HM-14 Pou du Ciel Taivaankirppu MiG-15 UTI (twin-seated) MiG-17 MiG-21 F,Bis (single-seated)...
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Hobo Henderson-Glenny Gadfly Kay Gyroplane Luton Minor Mignet HM.14 Pou-du-Ciel Parmentier Wee Mite Peyret-Mauboussin PM X RWD 1 SAI KZ I Saynor & Bell...
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