The Bréguet Br 905 Fauvette (English: Warbler) is a single-seat, standard class, competition sailplane, designed and produced in France from the late 1950s.
The major structural component is the main spar plus nose D-box unit, skinned with a plastic foam-filled ("Klegecel") sandwich with 0.6 mm (0.024 in) ply outer layers.
The nose section, with a moulded plastic foam shell over a steel frame contains the cockpit, which is covered by a high, one-piece canopy over the upright seating position, giving the Fauvette a somewhat humpbacked look.
[1][2] The Br 905 competed in the 1958 World Gliding Championship at Leźno in Poland as was intended, though it failed to repeat the success of the earlier Bréguet, coming in 9th out of 24 in the Standard Class.
[2] Bréguet set up a batch production line for fifty aircraft, all of which had been delivered to customers in several European countries and in North America by the end of January 1961.
Some were in private hands by 1959: for example, on 12 June 1959 Tony Goodhart set a new British National Distance record of 617 km (383 mi) in his Fauvette, the 5th, preproduction, aircraft.
Though a modification involving metal and wood straps to reinforce the bonding was devised, most Fauvettes never flew again.