General Knowledge

This is a book with significant historical value for any pilot and especially the homebuilders.It may be the mother of all homebuider books. Henri Mignet is in France the "Saint Patron" of the homebuilders. We guess that he should be the saint patron of the homebuilders worldwide! Why? Well, he was the first to make an airplane accessible to the man of the street. In 1929 he published a hand-written book describing his philosophy of flight and which contained the plans of the HM-8 with accurate building instructions.
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Brave New Groups November 2010. Article in English. The lines between hiring aircraft from flying clubs and group ownership are blurring, bringing down the cost of flying By Nick Bloom. Read the article