Scott Motorcycle-Powered Flying Flea

In 1934 the Scott Motor Cycle Company began to design a two cycle twin cylinder engine for aircraft use.  On August 13, 1935 Henri Mignet flew to England in his own Flying Flea setting off a wave of enthusiasm for the radical new home-built light aircraft type.

In his very thorough book, The Scott Motorcycle (239 pages, published by G T Foulis & Co. Ltd., Somerset, England in 1974), Jeff Clew describes the efforts to merge the world of the motorcycle with that of the aircraft:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0854291644/qid=1036197244/sr=1-19/ref=sr_1_0_19/026-3598230-6062066

 

 
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