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Jurca MJ-5 G2 Sirocco seen in season one of Les chevaliers du ciel (1987 TV Series).

Marcel Jurca (born in Bucarest, Romania on 20 janvier 1923 – Paris, 19 October 2001) was a prolific designer of homebuilt aircraft in France. He is most well known for his Tempête and Sirocco designs.
A former Royal Romanian Air Force during World War 2, he left his country for France in 1948. After a period as a volunteer flying instructor, he missed having an aircraft to fly, so he created his own. He built a Jodel D-112 and flew it in 1954. Marcel designed, built and flew the MJ-2 some years later. This was very successful, and he started selling plans for homebuilders (around 60 airframes built). He was naturalised French in 1965, the same year he designed the Jurca MJ-5 Sirocco, a two-seat sport aircraft again marketed for homebuilding.
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. Some 80 airplanes built with this rule for the exact type name :
MJ-5 Sirocco (generic) + suffixe letter (engine) + 1 or 2 (fixed or retractable landing gear) which gives for example MJ-5G2 for a Sirocco fitted with a 112 kW (150 hp) Lycoming O-320 engine and a folding undercarriage.

This page lists all films that feature a variation of the Jurca MJ-5 Sirocco.

See also

• Jurca MJ-5 Sirocco at Wikipedia