Jurca MJ-2 Tempête
The Jurca MJ-2 Tempête is a French single-seat sport monoplane designed by Marcel Jurca and first flown in 1956, sold purely as homebuilder's plans rather than as a finished aircraft. Built of wood with fabric-covered flying surfaces and a bubble canopy, it could be finished with any of more than a dozen different engine options, letting amateur builders match the airframe to whatever powerplant they had on hand. More than 60 were completed, and decades later dozens remained flying, mostly in France, making it one of the more enduring homebuilt designs to emerge from 1950s French amateur aviation.
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A 1950s French homebuilt sold as plans only: a wooden, bubble-canopied sport monoplane that took a dozen or more engine options.
Specifications
| Length | 5.6 m (18 ft) |
|---|---|
| Wingspan | 5.9 m (19 ft) |
| Height | 2.3 m (8 ft) |
| Persons on board | 1 |
| Maximum take-off weight | 0.4 t |
| Range | 300 NM (556 km) |
| Service ceiling | 11,000 ft (3,353 m) |
| Optimum ceiling | 8,000 ft (2,438 m) |
| Rate of climb | 550 ft/min (2.8 m/s) |
| Take-off distance | 250 m (820 ft) |
| Landing distance | 250 m (820 ft) |
| Fuel capacity | 60 l |
Curated by CatchFlights from manufacturer documents, ICAO Doc 8643 and reference works; values are left out where no source could confirm them. Sources are listed on our credits page.
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