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Harlow PJC

Ted Citizen maneuvers for a comfortable position its he works on the empennage of the new PJC-4. Ted Citizen is seen from view down fuselage from the cockpit. Center,
upper portion of the motor is assembled by an Aero-Tech student.When assembly of small parts is complete, students must load fuselage and wings on a truck for transport to a local airport where the final assembly and checkover is accomplished. students have the fuselage, with tail assembly now complete, loaded and ready to leave East Campus technology building.
Aero-Tech pledges carry a TWA tail assembly to the East Campus Student Union for a noon-time demonstration. The new plane completed, lower right, and ready for test flight.

Aero-Tech's PJC-IV Nearing Completion

By Tom Hall
PJC Chronicle June 7, 1940

Pasadena junior college's Aero-Tech department will soon put the finishing touches to its latest and probably its most outstanding aeronautical creation-the two seater tandem trainer, PJC-IV -now in the stage of production just previous to the actual assembly work.

Scheduled to be completed by the end of this semester, this trim new ship being constructed for a prominent sportsman pilot doctor of Southern California, will not be ready to fly at least until the middle of the summer due to unforeseen difficulties and delay.

PJC-II Outstanding

Other Aero-Tech planes, of which the PJC-II was most notable with its acceptance and purchase by the CAA last month, has given the production crew valuable experience and data applicable to this model.

Powered by a 300 h.p. late model supercharged air-cooled Menasco "Super-Buccaneer" engine, and aided by an entirely new design, the plane is expected to have a cruising speed of around 200 miles an hour. All-metal construction furnishes the plane with greater strength to withstand the strain that the added horsepower will naturally cause. Previous planes produced at PJC have had less horsepower and never have been entirely all-metal.

Experienced Workers

Seniors with previous construction experience have handled most of the designing, building and assembling under the'. . supervision of Max B. Harlow, head of PJC aeronautical division and F. A. Hoffman, In charge of construction. Only exception has been the welding work which is too important in the precision construction to be handled by anyone but an experienced welder.

Many of the students working on the plane spent last summer working in various southland aircraft factories but returned to work on this plane, started in january, 1939.

The PJC-1-built by students of the Pasadena Junior College under the supervision of Mr. Max Harlow, instructor in aviation. It is shown here in flight being tested by Jack Kelly, veteran test pilot. According to Kelly, the plane was smooth in performance and handled easily. Another plane. similar in type to the first, is now under construction in the Aeronautics Department. Improvements suggested by the tests made on the first plane, have been incorporated in building its prototype, the PJC-2.

 
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