The Flying Flea. ('Le Pou-du-Ciel'). How to build and fly it by Henri Mignet.
The Flying Flea. ('Le Pou-du-Ciel'). How to build and fly it by Henri Mignet.
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, London, 1934, second edition, printed the same year, one month after the first edition.
Fair hardback, no jacket. Orange cloth boards are quite rubbed, bumped, marked and chipped. Spine is faded and marked with frayed edges, small tears to the cloth. Name to ffep, binding firm, foxing and tanning, minor marks. B&w frontispiece.
The Mignet HM.14 Flying Flea (Pou du Ciel) is a single-seat light aircraft first flown in 1933, designed for amateur construction. It was the first of a family of aircraft collectively known as Flying Fleas.
