Croses Pouplume

The Croses Pouplume ("lousefeather") was an unusual ultralight aircraft developed in France in the 1960s. Inspired by Henri Mignet's Pou-du-Ciel design with its distinctive tandem wing layout, Croses set out to develop a similar aircraft to be powered by a single-cylinder motorcycle engine of around 6 kW (8 hp). The resulting machine, designated the EC-1 weighed only 108 kg (238 lb) empty, and flew around 1960. Like the Pou-du-Ciel, the Pouplume dispensed with traditional ailerons and elevators and pivoted the entire forward wing to provide pitch control