Custer Channelwing
Custer Channelwing
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Layperson here re: Custer Channelwing
He built at least three working examples and asked the entire world for a "peer review" and everyone laughed? WTH? Google says no one talks about this (apart from the "official" site). So, I'm asking you learned folks--is this ostensibly proven technology useful today?
He built at least three working examples and asked the entire world for a "peer review" and everyone laughed? WTH? Google says no one talks about this (apart from the "official" site). So, I'm asking you learned folks--is this ostensibly proven technology useful today?





RE: Custer Channelwing
I believe mounting the engines above the wings so that the plane gets extra lift from the wash over the wings has been a standard practice in the past.
The Channelwing just seems to be the same technology taken to the extreme. So personally I don't have any problem believing it. If I ever make a model aeroplane I'll consider it.
RE: Custer Channelwing
As I se it, this is another example of the technology used but not refined and perfected.
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Custer got the idea for the channelwing from seeing the roof fly off a barn, and he had NO engineering schooling whatsoever, he went by the seat of his pants rather than base his designs on "good science" yet it worked for him and the technology does indeed work.
The concept has problems though, firstly, it's relatively inefficient for going thru the air so it's slower than a conventional airplane, and it can't hover so it doesn't have the practicality of either a helicopter or a V-22 Osprey. So secondly, I'm sure it'd have great use as a niche aircraft, but I don't personally think that there is sufficient of a market for a company to tool up for producing it, unless the military buys into it as well.
RE: Custer Channelwing
and you've lost the trailing edge for flaps.
and isn't most of pressure on the inner face of the channel not acting in a direction to support the weight of the plane (ie radially in the channel, as opposed the vertically for a conventional wing).
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Unless you're refering to: http://www.steelfalcon.com/Macross/vf22.shtml
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