Marcel Jurca was a Romanian-born
pilot who flew for the Luftwaffe
during World War II before defecting
to France. During the 1950s Jurca
designed the single-seat,
wood-and-fabric aerobatic Jurca MJ-2
Tempête (Tempest) (Homebuilt).
Jurca went on to build a number of
homebuilt aircraft, including the
Jurca MJ-77 (3/4 Mustang).
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 Romainian
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 tail wheel 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.
Source:
Wikipedia
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