TEST OF "FLYING FLEA"
ADVERSE REPORT IN FRANCE DANGEROUS TENDENCIES REVEALED (Received October 2, 1.20 a.m.) PARIS, October 1. The Air Ministry’s report on the “flying flea,” based on full-scale tests in a wind tunnel, says that even with a fairly powerful engine the “flying flea” has a performance only just satisfying the requirements for a certificate of navigability. The report adds that a machine built exactly to the design of the inventor, M. H. Mignet, has a centre pressure always more than 45 per cent, to the stern. This is dangerous because the machine cannot be levelled up when the longitudinal instability causes a dive. The “flying flea” also suffers from lateral instability md poor handling qualities. ■
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21903, 2 October 1936, Page 11
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