Jurca Gnatsum

The Jurca Gnatsum is a French homebuilt near scale replica aircraft based on the North American P-51 Mustang.

Design & Development The Gnatsum (Mustang spelled backwards) is one of many wooden homebuilt designs from Romanian designer Marcel Jurca. Jurca, a Henschel Hs 129 pilot in World War II, expanded his warbird replica designs to include the Allied North American P-51 Mustang fighter.

The Gnatsum is a low-wing, cantilever monoplane with an enclosed single-seat cockpit and manually retractable tailwheel landing gear based on that of the Jurca Sirocco. Suitable for a number of engines around , plans for the Gnatsum are available as the 2/3 scale MJ-7 and the 3/4 scale MJ-77, as well as the MJ-70 full-size representation. All versions are constructed from wood with fabric covering, and manufacturing rights to the kit aircraft were acquired by Falconar Avia. Plans for the MJ-77 are available from Avions Marcel Jurca.

Some of the engines suitable for the MJ-7 Gnatsum series are:- Ranger 6-440C-5 inline engine Menasco C4 de Havilland Gipsy Major I Rambler aluminum block in-line 6 General Motors aluminum V-8

Variants MJ-7 2/3 scale variant MJ-7S Solo Single-seat advanced trainer version of MJ-7, the under-belly scoop inherited from the Mustang design was removed. MJ-77 3/4 scale Mustang variant that requires an engine of .Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 94. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485XTacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 100. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. MJ-70 Full-scale variant (still under development in 2001 when Jurca died - never completed)

Specifications (Jurca MJ-77 Gnatsum)

Jurca Gnatsum

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