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The Jurca MJ10/MJ100 75% and full-size Spitfire replica - from plans!
Marcel Jurca's 75% and full-sized Spitfires are gaining in popularity - there's at least one of each size being built, and two full-sized ones flying!
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Marcel Jurca
Marcel Jurca, who designed the Jurca Tempete and Sirocco light sporting planes, produced plans for the 75% scale wood and fabric aircraft based on the Spitfire XIV some thirty years ago. It was powered by a 105hp Continental engine and had an empty weight of around 1,450lbs. This stunning example was built by Walther and Stephan Haug, but tragically crashed in August 2005.
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Two MJ10s were under construction in the UK in the mid-1970s, but neither appears to have been completed. Recently, a 'new' MJ10 project has been registered with the PFA.
Seen here is the first full-size MJ100 Spitfire to be built - Jean-Patrick Dubois' MkIX version, originally fitted with a 690hp Hispano-Suiza V-12, but later re-engined with a 1,200hp Allison V-1710-65 engine after he found the performance lacking a little.
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Jurca MJ100
This stunning machine is Bob DeFord's N1940K, another Allison-engined MkIX Spitfire replica, but unlike Dubois' all-wood aircraft, this has a welded steel tube fuselage, clad in aluminium, with wooden wings. Bob reckons he invested around $250,000 into his aircraft, and loves flying it!
(Doug Fisher/Classic Wings photo)
(click on the photo to go to the Marcel Jurca website)
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