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    The Custer Channel Wing was a series of American-built experimental aircraft designs of the 1940s and 1950s incorporating a half-barrel shaped section...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • channel wing concept. Custer left school at age 13, working as a blacksmith and, later, an engineer and mechanic. The inspiration to the channel wing...
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    the wing forming a partial duct around or immediately behind a propeller. Flown since 1942 in prototype form only, most notably on the Custer Channel Wing...
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  • George Armstrong Custer, two-time recipient of the U.S. Army Medal of Honor Willard Ray Custer (1899–1985), inventor of channel wing airfoils This page...
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    Rhein-Flugzeugbau RF-1 (category Channel-wing aircraft)
    400 nmi) Service ceiling: 6,200 m (20,300 ft) Related development Custer Channel Wing Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rhein-Flugzeugbau RF-1. H...
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    Custer Channel Wing Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland 1951-1970 Built several STOL prototype aircraft using the Willard Ray Custer's channel wing concept...
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  • Skycar 2007 transport, 1 built Aeroprakt A-36 Vulcan 2011 2 seater Custer Channel Wing 1942 experimental aircraft, 4 built Embraer/FMA CBA 123 Vector 1990...
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  • Schutte-Lanz G.I 1915 bomber 1 built (behind wing) Udet U 11 Kondor 1926 airliner, 1 built Custer Channel Wing 1942 experimental aircraft, 4 built Embraer/FMA...
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