Photograph:
Miranda Joey 2 19-4269 (c/n 01) at The Oaks, NSW in mid 2006 (David C Eyre)
Country of origin:
Australia
Description:
Two-seat light sporting monoplane
Power Plant:
One 60 kw (80 hp) Rotax 912 four-cylinder horizontally-opposed four-stroke liquid-and-air cooled dual carburettor electronic dual-ignition engine
Specifications:
- Wingspan: 8.3 m (27 ft 2 in)
- Length: 5.5 m (18 ft 0½)
- Height: 1.82 m (5 ft 10 in)
- Max speed: 322 km/h (200 mph)
- Max cruising speed: 222 km/h (138 mph)
- Max manoeuvring speed: 222 km/h (138 mph)
- Max rough air speed: 259 km/h (161 mph)
- Stalling speed: 74 km/h (46 mph)
- Takeoff and landing run: 200 m (656 ft)
- Empty weight: 300 kg (661 lb)
- Loaded weight: 544 kg (1,199 lb)
History:
The Joey series of light sporting monoplanes was designed, developed and built by Garry Morgan of Miranda Investments of Riverwood, NSW. The first of his designs, the Joey, was designed for the amateur builder and was provided in kit form. The kit provided the fuselage partly built, brakes, seat-belts, metal parts cut and bent, bolt kit, control cables and all welding carried out. The wing had wooden spars. The fuselage had fibreglass moulded skins on top of the fuselage deck, these being bonded with resin and cotton flock, the ply on the bottom half being 2.5 mm (0.98 in) Birch. The wing skins were pre-moulded, the tail, rudder and fin being supplied. Fuel was carried in integral wings in the wing. A number have been built and have been fitted with a range of engines, including Volkwagen conversions, Rotax and Jabiru units.
The Joey can be de-rigged for carriage by trailer and to save on hangarage. Engines in the 45 kw to 75 kw (60 hp to 100 hp) range may be installed. The prototype (19-3377) was completed in 2003, was fitted with a converted Volkswagen engine driving a two-blade propeller, and the cockpit width was 104 cm (41 in). Development of the series continued and in late 2005 a new variant was released, known as the Joey 2, with a 114 cm (45 in) wide cockpit, powered by a Rotax 912 engine. Fuel capacity was a total of 150 litres (33 Imp gals) comprising 70 litres (15 Imp gals) in a header tank and 40 litres (8.8 Imp gals) in each wing tank. A further example became 19-7913.