1/12th scale Flying Flea

Build the legendary Flying Flea to 1/12th scale! My prototype electric powered Pou-Du-Ciel, on which these plans are based won it’s class the 2014 UK scale indoor free flight Nationals. The plans are packed with detail and information to the model builder, I have gone to great efforts to ensure the outlines of the design are true-to-scale, and used much material from Mignet’s original 1930’s articles published in Popular Mechanics magazine. These are probably the most accurate set of construction plans yet available for the Flea. This is a rib-for-rib scale model, but is still fairly easy to construct. The wings use a clever but simple jig to build in the characteristic curved dihedral.

The plans are to build the ‘Crosley Flea’, now on display in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in America, although with minor changes you could build any Flea that you wished. The model has a wingspan of about 19 inches, and flies in a very sedate fashion – free flight using the Zombie, Voodoo 25 and 130mAh LiPo cell. It would also fly well with CO2 power or with micro radio control using throttle (a slightly more powerful electric engine will be needed), rudder and pitch control as the wing on the model can be made to tilt like the original.

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PRINTED PLANS £18 +P&P (UK £4, please email for international postage)

DIGITAL PDF PLANS £15 once payment is received I will email you pdfs. To print my plans you will need access to an A3 printer.