Scott Motorcycle
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:
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