Whittaker MW5 Sorcerer

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.

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 8.54 m span wing has an area of 11.2 m2. The standard engine used is the 40 hp 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