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Mignet's HM.14 Flying Flea uses a tandem-wing layout, piston propulsion and fixed landing gear. Rara-Avis Sim represents the aircraft in its Microsoft Flight Simulator package.
Mignet HM.14 Flying Flea
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Mignet's HM.14 Flying Flea uses a tandem-wing layout, piston propulsion and fixed landing gear. Rara-Avis Sim represents the aircraft in its Microsoft Flight Simulator package.
History & design
A homebuilding movement
Henri Mignet offered plans through a handbook so that enthusiasts could construct their own Pou-du-Ciel, or Flying Flea. Shuttleworth records almost one hundred registered in Britain by 1937. The outbreak of war interrupted amateur construction, leaving this small tandem-wing aircraft closely associated with the pre-war homebuilding movement.
The Shuttleworth Collection · Mignet HM14 Pou-du-Ciel ↗Shuttleworth account of British homebuilding
A Southampton-built survivor
Shuttleworth’s G-AEBB was built by K. W. Owen in a shed behind his father’s fish-and-chip shop in Southampton and registered on 24 January 1936. The collection believes it never flew. After storage and service with an Air Training Corps unit, it reached Shuttleworth in 1967 and was restored by A. Dowson.
The Shuttleworth Collection · Mignet HM14 Pou-du-Ciel ↗History of G-AEBB; not a flying-service record for every HM.14
Systems & details
Several builds represented in the package
Rara-Avis presents its Flying Flea as a collection of individually modelled configurations rather than a single engine installation. The MSFS package lists Scott Squirrel, Carden Ford, Rotax and Salmson engine models, ten three-dimensional aircraft models and eighteen liveries. It also documents custom cockpit views and windscreen rain and icing effects. These are features of the simulator package and should be kept distinct from the history of Shuttleworth’s particular, unflown G-AEBB airframe.
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Manuals & resources
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Simulator documentation
Mignet HM.14 Flying Flea — simulator documentationRara-Avis Sim · Mignet HM.14 Flying Flea product descriptionAircraft history
Mignet HM14 Pou-du-CielThe Shuttleworth Collection · Reviewed aircraft history and characteristics; archived 2026-10-12Built-in force-feedback profiles
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Catalogue programme-20261011-v3 · 2 profile choices
Rara-Avis Sim Mignet HM.14 Flying Flea
Rara-Avis Sim · Free and Pro · Revision 2 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2020
The Flying Flea tandem-wing piston homebuilt.
Mignet HM.14 Flying Flea
Free and Pro · Revision 1 · Partial review
MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024 · X-Plane 12
The Flying Flea tandem-wing piston homebuilt.
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