The Harlow PC-5 was a 1930s American military trainer version of the PJC-2 , and was designed and built by the Harlow Aircraft Company and license-produced by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in India .
7-652: The Harlow Aircraft Company in Alhambra, California, designed a version of the PJC-2 as a tandem two-seat training aircraft. The PC-5 had a revised fuselage with dual controls. The aircraft first flew in July 1939 but it failed to interest the United States Army Air Corps . Howard Hughes ' business partner, J.B. Alexander, backed the project and had flown in early examples of the aircraft. Harlow licensed
14-475: Is a 1930s American four-seat cabin monoplane , designed by Max Harlow. Max Harlow was an aeronautical engineer and instructor at the Pasadena Junior College . Under his tutelage, the aircraft designated PJC-1 was designed and built as a class project. The PJC-1 first flew on 14 September 1937 at Alhambra, California but it crashed during an extended (more than six turn) spin test with
21-690: Is not known how many were assembled and flown. Using an engineering team brought in by Intercontinental, a cheaper version of the PC-5 was developed and built as the PC-6 . The PC-6 wing failed, causing a fatal accident during an early test flight. Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1941, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft General characteristics Performance Related development Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Related lists Harlow PJC-2 The Harlow PJC-2
28-540: The PJC-1 was never returned to service. PJC students then built a slightly modified airplane, which limited aileron travel with full aft-stick and incorporated a slightly larger vertical stabilizer. This became the PJC-2 model, serial number 1 certified on 20 May 1938. It was one of the first, if not the first, airplane designed and built in the U.S. with a stressed-skin semi-monocoque structure—a revolutionary design feature for
35-483: The center of gravity ballasted to the aft limit, as it was going through the certification process—a problem generally laid at the feet the unusually rigorous spin test requirement and the government test pilot, who bailed out of the airplane after the spin "flattened out." The airplane struck the ground, still in the "flat" (longitudinally level) attitude in a bean field near Mines Field (now Los Angeles International Airport) with considerable damage; although repairable,
42-726: The manufacturing rights to the PC-5 to Cub Aircraft of Canada during the wartime buildup. Only five aircraft had been built when the company was taken over by the Intercontinent Corporation. Components for 50 aircraft were supplied to the Indian company Hindustan Aeronautics , who were to assemble the aircraft for use by the Royal Indian Air Force as the PC-5A . The first PC-5A flew in August 1941, but it
49-483: The time. Harlow saw the potential and formed the Harlow Aircraft Company to build PJC-2 aircraft at Alhambra Airport. Four aircraft were impressed into United States Army Air Forces service with the designation UC-80 in 1942, and used by Civil Aeronautics Administration inspectors after WWII. The PJC-2 was an all-metal low-wing cantilever monoplane with conventional low-set tailplane and
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