Jurca Sirocco

MJ-5 Sirocco
Role Sport aircraft
National origin France
Manufacturer Homebuilt
Designer Marcel Jurca
First flight 25 July 1962
Number built >80
Developed from Jurca Tempete

The Jurca MJ-5 Sirocco (named for the Sirocco wind) is a two-seat sport aircraft designed in France in the early 1960s and marketed for homebuilding.[1] It is one of many wooden homebuilt designs from Romainian born designer Marcel Jurca. Jurca, a Henschel Hs 129 pilot in WWII marketed the plans in Canada and America through Falconar Aviation.[2] It is a low-wing cantilever monoplane of conventional configuration and wooden construction throughout.[3] The tandem seats are enclosed by a bubble canopy, and the tailwheel undercarriage can be built as either fixed or with retractable main units. Marcel Jurca died on 19 October 2001, at which time plans were still available from the designer's web site.

Variants

The prototype Jurca MJ-5 Sirocco exhibited at the 1965 Biggin Hill Air Fair at Biggin Hill Airport, Kent, in May 1965
MJ-5
Basic variant
MJ-50 Windy
All-metal version with retractable landing gear (never built)
MJ-51 Sperocco
("Special Sirocco") - performance version with wing taken from Jurca Gnatsum
MJ-52 Zéphyr
(English: Zephyr wind) - utility version with converted Volkswagen automotive engine or Continental A65
MJ-53 Autan
(English: Autan wind) - version with side-by-side seating - 2 built
MJ-55 Biso
(English: Biso wind) - 1 built)

Specifications (typical MJ.5)

General characteristics

Performance


References

  1. ↑ "All these planes you can build from plans". Popular Science: 99. June 1970.
  2. ↑ Nick Stasinos (February 1972). "Marcel's Mini Fighters". Plane & Pilot.
  3. ↑ Air Progress Sport Aircraft: 76. Winter 1969. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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