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Channel Wing aircraft CCW-5. The channel wing is an aircraft wing principle developed by Willard Ray Custer in the 1920s. The most important part of the wing consists of a half-tube with an engine placed in the middle, driving a propeller placed at the rear end of the channel formed by the half-tube. Antonov Izdeliye 181 Experimental
Custer developed a wing design incorporating a semi-circular channel or "half barrel" shape in which an engine was to be fitted, in order to draw air over the wing and, in 1929, he received a United States patent. [1] The arrangement is intended to draw enough air over the wing, even when moving slowly, to create sufficient lift to fly.
The Custer CCW-5 was a twin-engined, 5-seat aircraft of pusher configuration, which used a channel wing claimed to enable low speed flight and short take-offs. Two CCW-5s flew, eleven years apart, but the type never entered production. The aircraft was the third and last of a series of Custer Channel Wing designs.
A tandem wing design has two wings, one behind the other: see Tailplanes and foreplanes below. Some early types had tandem stacks of multiple planes, such as the nine-wing Caproni Ca.60 flying boat with three triplane stacks in tandem. A cruciform wing is a set of four individual wings arranged in the shape of a cross. The cross may take either ...
Willard Ray Custer (June 6, 1899, Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania – December 25, 1985, Hagerstown, Maryland) was an American engineer and aircraft visionary, inventor of the channel wing concept. [1] Custer left school at age 13, working as a blacksmith and, later, an engineer and mechanic.
Blended-wing planes are essentially one giant wing. A scale model of the Airbus blended-wing concept aircraft at the Farnborough International Airshow in 2022. Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty ...
Back in January, Boeing flew its fancy new widebody aircraft for the first time. The wings are longer than the ones on previous versions of that airplane—a design change that helps increase the ...
The RF-1 is a modification of the channel wing concept, that uses a single channel and propeller to eliminate the asymmetrical lift issues with a twin channel wing design. The "channel" is an airfoil -shaped section along the lower arc of the rearward propeller that produces additional lift from the propwash.