Mignet Pou-du-Ciel

Flying Flea series
Mignet HM.14
General information
Type	Sport, personal and trainer aircraft
Manufacturer	homebuilt aircraft
Designer	Henri Mignet
History
Manufactured	1933–present
Introduction date	1933
First flight	10 September 1933 (HM.14)

The Flying Flea (French: Pou du Ciel, lit. 'Louse of the Sky') is a large family of light homebuilt aircraft first flown in 1933.

The odd name comes from the French nickname for the Ford Model T automobile: Pou de la Route, or "Louse of the Road", because Henry Ford's economy car was so common. Henri Mignet dreamed of creating a Model T of the air, an airplane for the common man, hence the term Pou du Ciel. In English, the term became Flying Flea. Originally applied only to the HM.14 model, the name has now come to describe the family of aircraft of similar configuration designed by Mignet and others.^{[citation needed]}