Jurca MJ-6 Crivats

MJ-6
Role Homebuilt aircraft
National origin France
Designer Marcel Jurca

The Jurca MJ-6 Crivats (from Crivăț a wind in Romania) is a plans built homebuilt, twin engine design from Romanian-born Marcel Jurca.[1]

Design

The MJ-6 was designed to be a retractable tricycle geared, low-wing, all-wood construction, twin engine homebuilt. The wooden structure is covered with 1/8" plywood panels. The engine gauges are mounted externally on the engine nacelles facing the pilot. The cowlings and canopy were to be sourced from Falconar Avia.[2]

Construction was started in 1964, but it was never completed.[3] It was a two-seat tandem design - a side-by-side version, the MJ-66 was also planned but never built.[1]

Specifications (MJ-6)

Data from Air Trails

General characteristics

  • Crew: 1
  • Capacity: 1
  • Length: 8.76 m (28 ft 9 in)
  • Powerplant: 2 × Lycoming or Continental , 110 kW (150 hp) each

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 394 km/h (245 mph, 213 kn)

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

References

  1. ^ a b PDF in French (October 2016). Les Avions Marcel Jurca 1956-2016. Comité Marcel Jurca. p. 98. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  2. ^ Hank Clark (Winter 1971). Air Trails: 26. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ Simpson, RW (May 1969). "The Jurca Mini-Air Force". Air-Britain Digest. 21 (5): 140–141.