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. It is one of many wooden homebuilt designs from Romanian born designer Marcel Jurca. Jurca, a Henschel Hs 129 pilot in World War II marketed the plans in Canada and America through Falconar Aviation. It is a low-wing cantilever monoplane of conventional configuration and wooden construction throughout. 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 website.
Plans are supplied by Avions Marcel Jurca and Manna Aviation of Australia.
Variants
MJ-5 Basic variant The type of engine fitted, and the type of landing gear, are indicated by suffixes to the designation. For example MJ-5K2. A - Continental C90-8 or -14F B - Continental O-200-A C - Potez 4 E-20 D - Lycoming O-235 E - Lycoming O-290 EA - Walter F - Continental G - Lycoming O-320 H - Lycoming O-320 J - Franklin K - Lycoming O-360 L - Lycoming O-360 M - Franklin: 1 - Fixed landing gear, 2 - retractable landing gear MJ-50 Windy All-metal version with retractable landing gear (never built) MJ-51 Sperocco ("Special Sirocco") - performance version with wing taken from the Jurca Gnatsum MJ-52 Zéphyr () - utility version with converted Volkswagen automotive engine or Continental A65 MJ-53 Autan () - version with side-by-side seating - two built MJ-55 Biso () - aerobatic version with the wings of the Jurca Gnatsum without flaps. It had a smaller tail and a fixed aluminium blade landing gear. Only one was built, with a Lycoming engine. First flown in 1998, it crashed in 2000 due to gluing errors in construction.
Specifications (MJ-5D)
References
Sirocco on designer's website pilotfriend.com
External links
Avions Marcel Jurca website Manna Aviation website