University of Wyoming
Paul T. McLaughlin was in the wood working division of Remington Rand in New York. In 1942 he moved to New Jersey to work for Andover Kent Aviation Corporation. He built Langley plastic bonded aircraft under the direction of designer Martin Jensen.
Martin Jensen was a pilot and airplane designer. He established the Jensen Aircraft Corporation where he designed the Jensen Trainer. He piloted his Breese "Aloha" to a second place finish in the 1927 Dole Trans-Pacific Air Race, a race from Oakland to Honolulu. In 1935, he joined Langley Aircraft and worked on the design of a plastic molding known as the Langley Process. In 1940 he went to work for the Bendix Aviation Corporation where he devised the Bendix Model J single-seat helicopter. He retired in the mid-1960s, though he continued his aviation research.
The collection contains binders of documents and photographs about Martin Jensen and the Langley plastic bonded plywood molding process. Included are photocopies from books and newspapers and printouts of web articles. Also included are photographs pertaining to Jensen and to the aircraft he designed.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Paul T. McLaughlin at the date of processing.
This material was received from Paul T. McLaughlin in 2011
The collection was processed by D. Claudia Thompson in October 2012.
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