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To my knowledge, there are only two Mignet aircraft with any military connections:The HM-280 Pou-Maquis or "guerilla flea" (photos from here and more here) was designed by Mignet at the request of a Col. Eon to be a liaison aircraft to accompany airborne troops. It was a tiny, single-seat aircraft with quick-folding wings, small and light enough to land on almost any road and be quickly hidden. It could also be towed on it's own wheels behind a motorcyle. After the war, it was developed into the HM-290, Mignet's first post-war offering for amateur builders, which is still being built today in the slightly larger HM-293 version.The other military flea that I know of is the HM-1000 Balerit, an aluminim-tube-and-dacron microlight designed and built commercialy in fairly large numbers in the 1980s and 1990s by Aviation Mignet, a company founded by Mignet's son and grandson, IIRC. It was used by the French Army Light Aviation (ALAT) units as non-combat liaison aircraft, particulalry an eye-in-sky traffic cop over large convoys. It was also adapted as a forest fire patrol aircraft in southern France and on the island of Corsica. I have personally flown in the fire patrol aircraft below, though the photos are both from the Mignet company site.Cheers,Matthew
To my knowledge, there are only two Mignet aircraft with any military connections:
The HM-280 Pou-Maquis or "guerilla flea" (photos from here and more here) was designed by Mignet at the request of a Col. Eon to be a liaison aircraft to accompany airborne troops. It was a tiny, single-seat aircraft with quick-folding wings, small and light enough to land on almost any road and be quickly hidden. It could also be towed on it's own wheels behind a motorcyle. After the war, it was developed into the HM-290, Mignet's first post-war offering for amateur builders, which is still being built today in the slightly larger HM-293 version.
The other military flea that I know of is the HM-1000 Balerit, an aluminim-tube-and-dacron microlight designed and built commercialy in fairly large numbers in the 1980s and 1990s by Aviation Mignet, a company founded by Mignet's son and grandson, IIRC. It was used by the French Army Light Aviation (ALAT) units as non-combat liaison aircraft, particulalry an eye-in-sky traffic cop over large convoys. It was also adapted as a forest fire patrol aircraft in southern France and on the island of Corsica. I have personally flown in the fire patrol aircraft below, though the photos are both from the Mignet company site.
Cheers,
Matthew
