Photograph:
Cloud Dancer Jenny 10-0466 (c/n 005) at Ourimbah, NSW in March 1994 fitted with a Cuyuna UL 11-02 engine (David C Eyre)
Country of origin:
United States of America
Description:
Single-seat light sport biplane
Power Plant:
One 37 kw (50 hp) Rotax 503UL-2V two-cylinder, two-stroke, fan-cooled engine
Specifications:
- Wingspan: 8.4 m (27 ft 6 in)
- Length: 5.6 m (18 ft 4 in)
- Height: 2.13 m (6 ft 11 in)
- Wing area: 16.2 m² (174.3 sq ft)
- Max speed: 113 km/h (70 mph)
- Cruising speed: 97 km/h (60 mph)
- Stalling speed: 56 km/h (35 mph)
- Rate of climb: 244 m/min (800 ft/min)
- Range: 290 km (180 miles)
- Take-off distance: 30 m (100 ft)
- Landing run: 76 m (250 ft)
- Empty weight: 204 kg (450 lb)
- Loaded weight: 363 kg (800 lb)
History:
The Cloud Dancer Jenny was an approximately two-thirds scale (67 per cent) replica of the Curtiss JN4D Jenny of the 1920s and was a single-seat ultralight of biplane configuration. Although the design appeared to have a second cockpit, this was non-functional. The airframe was gusset-riveted aluminium tubing with dacron covering. It was produced in kit form in the United States.
In the 1980s it is believed The Cloud Dancer Jenny was put into limited production by Albatross Aviation of Dee Why, NSW. In the United States Early Bird Aircraft Company of Colorado produced a 67 per cent scale kit of the Jenny powered by a Rotax 503 engine.
Aircraft registered under Ultralight Regulations have included: 10-0587 (c/n 002), 10-0596 (c/n not known), 10-0597 (c/n 004), and 10-1150 (c/n not known). All examples had been retired by the early 1990s.
Variants have also been built with the Cuyuna UL 11-02 engine and with this engine specifications include: economical cruising speed 83 km/h (52 mph); stalling speed 34 km/h (24 mph); empty weight 113 kg (249 lb).
One Australian aircraft was powered by a 45 kw (60 hp) modified Suzuki Swift (1000 cc) three-cylinder engine.
Examples were marketed in Australia by Albatross Aviation of Dee Why.