BRITAIN'S FLYING FLEAS
- -r —, ..♦,..,.'. ■; There are ninety-seven of the, minis* ture aeroplanes called Flying Fleas registered in Britain, and sixty-nine ; of their owners have obtained permits-to fly Registration costs a guinea. Many hundreds of other % amateur cdhstructors of this • type of, -machine , are awaiting the Air Ministryjs report :on the tests made in a lull-sized:-.wind tunnel. These tests showed ,that the particular kind of Flying Flea which was examined would not go into'.the uncontrollable dive which has caused fatal accidents in Britain and abroad. With the publication of the ofncial report, there should be an increasing number of these machines in the air. Their cost—about £loo—puts flying within the reach of a large. public^
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 70, 19 September 1936, Page 12
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114BRITAIN'S FLYING FLEAS Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 70, 19 September 1936, Page 12
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