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Try this one guys, all correct entries go into a draw for a
barrel of marmalade.......

It's a Pou-du-Ciel (Flying Flea).

Where's my marmalade?  ;D

Good question, I was so shattered that I was off sulking...

You deserve it, so I sent both a "ready-made" and a "do it yourself kit."

I hope honour is satisfied.

I'm going back to scouring the hangars of New Zealand, I'll beat you guys yet...............

Now that last picture is FUNNY Baz

I'm going back to scouring the hangars of New Zealand, I'll beat you guys yet...............

The Pou-de-Ciel is quite common up north (UK)...

Honour is satisfied!

I can now have marmalade with breakfast (I was simply too lazy to go shopping).

The little bit of comment I could find on this plane, was that the type killed so many pilots over here it was more or less forced into retirement.   Looking at it I'm not surprised...

The Pou-de-Ciel is quite common up north (UK)...

Also "darn sarf". We have one of our own at Shoreham.

Better luck next time Bazza. Don't get downhearted.

PS. The Flying Flea was a homebuild that appealed to the amateur who didn't know much about aircraft. As I recall it was featured in an amateur engineering magazine article. Plans were available for a small fee but I'm not sure how detailed they were. I think the basic design was sound but materials & construction methods varied so much it's not surprising it didn't have a good safety record. I think all sorts of engines were fitted to it, some most unsuitable for an aircraft.

Also "darn sarf". We have one of our own at Shoreham.

That's still up north in relation to NZ...

That's still up north in relation to NZ...

Ah OK. I get your drift.

More on the Pou de Ciel. [quote]The Flying Flea was an aeronautical craze of the mid-1930s. It was designed by a French engineer, Henri Mignet (1894-1965), who brought it to Brighton and Shoreham to demonstrate it in 1935. It had two wings - a front wing (18ft span) which could pivot for ascending and descending, and a rear wing (13ft span) which was fixed. It had low-power engines and could be built at home, from instructions in a published book, for less than

Neat, but not as neat as the Aeronca C3 or EE Wren