THE "FLYING FLEA"
WIND-TUNNEL TESTS
The Air Ministry has not yet agreed to carry out an expert investigation of the "Flying Flea's" aerodynamical characteristics in the big wind tunnel at Farnborough, said "The Times" on June 6. This course was urged upon the Ministry by the Air League of the British Empire after the accident in which ; its test pilot was killed at Penshurst.. ' Since' then a chief flying instructor in the R.A.F. has been killed in an accident to another of these little • aeroplanes. Similar accidents in France have led the French Air Ministry to undertake to test a "Flying Flea" in its wind tunnel at Chalais Meudon. At the same time an independent 'investigation is being made by Professor G. R. Louden in the wind tunnel of Toronto University.
Since "Flying Fleas" are still at liberty to fly in Great Britaiu, and since at least 400 of this type are under construction by- enthusiasts who may subsequently attempt to fly them with little knowledge and less experience, the discovery of the causes of recent accidents and the instruction of the novices for their own safety are matters of some urgency. An opinion will doubtless be expressed by Major J. P. C. Cooper, the^Air Ministry's Inspector of Accidents, when he has completed his inquiry into the three cases at Renfrew, Penshurst, and in Lincolnshire.
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Evening Post, Issue 156, 3 July 1936, Page 14
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