Willard Ray Custer (June 6, 1899, Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania – December 25, 1985, Hagerstown, Maryland) was an American engineer and aircraft visionary...

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...

(1845–1876), brother of George Armstrong Custer, two-time recipient of the U.S. Army Medal of Honor Willard Ray Custer (1899–1985), inventor of channel wing...

performance, produced by engine power. The channel wing, the brainchild of Willard Ray Custer, is an example of the latter, where the air velocity over the upper...

1950s incorporating a half-barrel shaped section to each wing. In 1925, Willard Custer noticed how very strong winds had managed to lift the roof of a barn...

СССР-190101 and is exhibited in the State Museum of Aviation of Ukraine. Willard Ray Custer had previously built aeroplanes with the same wing concept in the...

75, Mexican union activist. Douglas Watt, 71, Canadian politician. Willard Ray Custer, 86, American aircraft engineer. Daniel Daney, 80, French Olympic...

planned for the B-290. The Brigadier was chosen by Willard Ray Custer as the basis of his Custer CCW-5, which used the fuselage and tail of the Brigadier...

production. Custer Channel Wing Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland 1951-1970 Built several STOL prototype aircraft using the Willard Ray Custer's channel wing...

Planetarium Leila Arboretum Linear Park Willard Beach and Park Willard Library Founded in 1917, Camp Custer, as it was then known, served over the next...