The Whittaker MW5 Sorcerer is a British amateur-built aircraft that was designed by Mike Whittaker in the mid-1980s and supplied as plans for amateur construction.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 111. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 117. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.
Design and development The aircraft features a strut-braced parasol wing, a single-seat open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration, mounted on the keel tube, above the cockpit.
Whittaker MW5 Sorcerer is made from aluminium tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its span wing has an area of . The standard engine used is the Rotax 447 two-stroke powerplant.
The design is approved by the Light Aircraft Association in the UK.
Variants
MW5A Initial version MW5D Model with folding wings and the same wing area as the "A" model MW5K Seaplane version with a single monohull Full Lotus inflatable float and wing tip pontoons MW7 Aerobatic version with shorter wingspan
Specifications (MW5A Sorcerer)
References
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Photo of Whittaker MW5D Sorcerer